{"id":15847,"date":"2012-06-01T06:57:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T05:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=15847"},"modified":"2012-06-01T07:12:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T06:12:17","slug":"whats-the-significance-of-that-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/06\/01\/whats-the-significance-of-that-u-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s the significance of that U turn?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So George Osborne's done another U turn - on\u00a0charity\u00a0tax this time<\/a>. Inevitably, by U turning he's called it wrong<\/a>, but that's not my point this morning. That though is not my point this morning. The\u00a0detail\u00a0of this U turn, and that on pasties and caravans is not in the\u00a0detail\u00a0of what he got right or wrong, it's rather that in his\u00a0opinion\u00a0he got it wrong.<\/p>\n

If this is a man who has lost command\u00a0of\u00a0the details of his policy agenda; who has failed to grasp the\u00a0significance\u00a0of the small stuff, and who is expending considerable political capital on such things as a result, what confidence can anyone have that he ever really grasped the big stuff?<\/p>\n

It could be said (probably\u00a0fairly) that\u00a0my\u00a0question is politically motivated, but when it is clear that a man has such a low\u00a0ability\u00a0to predict the\u00a0consequences\u00a0of his actions but acts anyway, why should we follow his\u00a0leadership\u00a0on such big issues as tackling an economy in recession?<\/p>\n

Is it reasonable to think a man who can't see that cutting tax\u00a0relief\u00a0for charities might alienate both those who tax avoid by using such arrangements and those charities innocently caught in the cross fire should also decide it's worth creating record unemployment, of the young and women in\u00a0particular, but also across society\u00a0general, simply on the basis of his judgement that this will lead to private sector economic growth?<\/p>\n

Or is it wiser to think that he simply can't predict the\u00a0consequences\u00a0of his actions?<\/p>\n

Many will now think the latter.<\/p>\n

And in that case millions in this country will now\u00a0realise\u00a0that they are now paying the price for his inability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So George Osborne’s done another U turn – on\u00a0charity\u00a0tax this time. Inevitably, by U turning he’s called it wrong, but that’s not my point this
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