{"id":18210,"date":"2012-11-15T15:01:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T15:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=18210"},"modified":"2012-11-15T15:01:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T15:01:11","slug":"heed-the-lesson-of-hmv-we-ignore-tax-havens-impact-on-our-high-streets-ay-our-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/15\/heed-the-lesson-of-hmv-we-ignore-tax-havens-impact-on-our-high-streets-ay-our-peril\/","title":{"rendered":"Heed the lesson of HMV &#8230;. we ignore tax havens impact on our High Streets at our peril"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004 HMV complained to the\u00a0Treasury\u00a0about the impact of\u00a0competition\u00a0on CD and DVD shipments being\u00a0artificially\u00a0routed through the Channel\u00a0Islands\u00a0to avoid VAT.<\/p>\n<p>Eight years later HMV is a wreck of a company and the High Street has been denuded of record shops.<\/p>\n<p>Which makes it all the more important that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2012\/nov\/15\/john-lewis-chief-fair-tax-plea\" target=\"_blank\">warning from Andy Street of John Lewis is <\/a>noticed now: offshore has the power to destroy much of our economy.<\/p>\n<p>We can choose to stop it. But we have to do so now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004 HMV complained to the\u00a0Treasury\u00a0about the impact of\u00a0competition\u00a0on CD and DVD shipments being\u00a0artificially\u00a0routed through the Channel\u00a0Islands\u00a0to avoid VAT. Eight years later HMV is a<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/15\/heed-the-lesson-of-hmv-we-ignore-tax-havens-impact-on-our-high-streets-ay-our-peril\/\"><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":[10,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-avoidance","category-tax-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18210","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=18210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}