{"id":18085,"date":"2012-11-07T10:59:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T10:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=18085"},"modified":"2012-11-07T10:59:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T10:59:41","slug":"its-a-long-time-before-debate-on-a-tax-general-anti-avoidance-principle-is-going-to-be-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/07\/its-a-long-time-before-debate-on-a-tax-general-anti-avoidance-principle-is-going-to-be-over\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a long time before debate on a tax general anti-avoidance principle is going to be over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catherine_McKinnell\" target=\"_blank\">Catherine McKinnell MP<\/a> spoke at the <a title=\"New Era at the ICAEW?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/07\/new-era-at-the-icaew\/\">ICAEW New Era<\/a> event last evening and added much of value.<\/p>\n<p>What is\u00a0very\u00a0clear is that she has no intention of giving David Gauke an easy ride. One issue she clearly is going to run with is his proposal for a a General Anti-Abuse Rule for tax - which is\u00a0his\u00a0pale, watered down version of\u00a0Graham\u00a0Aaranson's already weak\u00a0proposal\u00a0for a\u00a0general anti-avoidance rule. I described Gauke's suggestion as \"wallpaper\" at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>McKinnell made clear she wants something much stronger. That's why\u00a0Michael\u00a0Meacher's\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/services.parliament.uk\/bills\/2012-13\/generalantitaxavoidanceprinciple.html\" target=\"_blank\">General Anti-Tax Avoidance Principle Bill <\/a>fits the brief so well. It does what Gauke says he wants and what his Bill will never do. Sure, I'm biased: I wrote\u00a0Michael's Bill, but this one is going to run \u00a0and run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine McKinnell MP spoke at the ICAEW New Era event last evening and added much of value. What is\u00a0very\u00a0clear is that she has no intention<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/07\/its-a-long-time-before-debate-on-a-tax-general-anti-avoidance-principle-is-going-to-be-over\/\"><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":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gantip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18085","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=18085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}