{"id":14955,"date":"2012-04-05T11:58:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T10:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=14955"},"modified":"2012-04-05T11:58:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T10:58:38","slug":"the-scottish-government-has-subsidised-amazon-by-10-6-million-to-undermine-the-uks-tax-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/04\/05\/the-scottish-government-has-subsidised-amazon-by-10-6-million-to-undermine-the-uks-tax-system\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scottish government has subsidised Amazon by \u00c2\u00a310.6 million to undermine the UK&#8217;s tax system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/news\/hugh-andrew-amazon-jobs-come-at-a-high-price-for-scotland-1-1994067\" target=\"_blank\">was a fascinting article in The Scotsman late last year<\/a>\u00a0on Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish\u00a0government\u00a0has subsidised Amazon by \u00a310.6 million to undermine Waterstnes and the small booksellers north of the border, whilst <a title=\"Amazon\u2019s \u2014 adding \u00a335 million to the UK\u2019s tax gap\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/04\/05\/amazons-adding-35-million-to-the-uks-tax-gap\/\" target=\"_blank\">not paying tax in the UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You\u00a0couldn't\u00a0make it up, could you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a fascinting article in The Scotsman late last year\u00a0on Amazon. The Scottish\u00a0government\u00a0has subsidised Amazon by \u00a310.6 million to undermine Waterstnes and the small<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/04\/05\/the-scottish-government-has-subsidised-amazon-by-10-6-million-to-undermine-the-uks-tax-system\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-avoidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}