{"id":17773,"date":"2012-10-12T16:27:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=17773"},"modified":"2012-10-12T16:38:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:38:57","slug":"oh-be-joyful-osborne-has-found-the-path-to-our-salvation-and-its-called-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/10\/12\/oh-be-joyful-osborne-has-found-the-path-to-our-salvation-and-its-called-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh be joyful &#8211; Osborne has found the path to our salvation &#8211; and it&#8217;s called Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I kid you not. This is what the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisjersey.com\/news\/2012\/10\/12\/jersey-has-role-to-play-in-uk-economy-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jersey Evening Post<\/a> says this afternoon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jersey has got a role to play in helping the UK economy return to growth, Treasury Minister Philip Ozouf told Tory Chancellor George Osborne in Tokyo yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The Senator secured 30 minutes with his Westminster counterpart after a chance meeting at the largest meeting of world finance ministers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>Let's just\u00a0consider\u00a0that for a moment. One of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.financialsecrecyindex.com\/2011results.html\" target=\"_blank\">world's top flight tax havens<\/a> - where there is not a penny of real money, just bank accounts\u00a0recording\u00a0that money is being hidden from tax authorities and regualtors the world over - is, according to George Osborne going to save the UK.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Who's \u00a0more crazy? Osborne for saying it or Jersey for reporting it as\u00a0credible?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I kid you not. This is what the Jersey Evening Post says this afternoon: Jersey has got a role to play in helping the UK<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/10\/12\/oh-be-joyful-osborne-has-found-the-path-to-our-salvation-and-its-called-jersey\/\"><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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17773","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=17773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}