{"id":18479,"date":"2012-12-05T17:45:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T17:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=18479"},"modified":"2012-12-05T17:45:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T17:45:36","slug":"does-this-graph-make-clear-george-osbornes-lack-of-confidence-in-the-uk-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/12\/05\/does-this-graph-make-clear-george-osbornes-lack-of-confidence-in-the-uk-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Does this graph make clear George Osborne&#8217;s lack of confidence in the UK economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me suggest something. It's just an idea. I can't prove it right or wrong. Nor can it, for that matter be disproved. But the suggestion I want to make is that a\u00a0country's\u00a0corporation tax rate might be inversely correlated to\u00a0its\u00a0confidence\u00a0in the offering it has to make to those companies who want to locate their businesses in its\u00a0jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>In that case look at this graph from the autumn statement on where the UK\u00a0will be compared to other countries:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-shot-2012-12-05-at-17.38.05.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18480\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-12-05 at 17.38.05\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-shot-2012-12-05-at-17.38.05.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-shot-2012-12-05-at-17.38.05.png 665w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-shot-2012-12-05-at-17.38.05-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I call that a vote of no\u00a0confidence\u00a0by George Osborne in the UK. We're in the wrong company. But maybe that's because he thinks we can't compete with the eilte. If so, that's worrying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me suggest something. It&#8217;s just an idea. I can&#8217;t prove it right or wrong. Nor can it, for that matter be disproved. But the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/12\/05\/does-this-graph-make-clear-george-osbornes-lack-of-confidence-in-the-uk-economy\/\"><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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18479","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=18479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}