{"id":19194,"date":"2013-02-07T14:14:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T14:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=19194"},"modified":"2013-02-07T14:14:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T14:14:42","slug":"the-government-will-wait-until-the-end-of-2014-to-stop-tax-avoidance-in-the-gambling-industry-nearly-three-years-after-spotting-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/02\/07\/the-government-will-wait-until-the-end-of-2014-to-stop-tax-avoidance-in-the-gambling-industry-nearly-three-years-after-spotting-the-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The government will wait until the end of 2014 to stop tax avoidance in the gambling industry &#8211; nearly three years after spotting the problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/wrans\/?id=2013-02-06a.141859.h&amp;s=speaker%3A24818#g141859.q0\" target=\"_blank\">noticed another exchange on tax avoidance in parliament yesterday<\/a>, this one on gambling taxation, no doubt motivated by last week's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/02\/01\/another-day-another-tax-avoidance-scandal-as-this-time-the-bookies-take-the-uk-for-a-ride\/\" target=\"_blank\">report in The\u00a0Independent\u00a0in\u00a0which\u00a0I commented<\/a>. It went as follows:<\/p>\n<div id=\"g141859.q0\">\n<div>\n<blockquote><p><a title=\"See more information about Catherine McKinnell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/mp\/?m=40421\">Catherine McKinnell<\/a>\u00a0<small>(Newcastle upon Tyne North, Labour)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>To ask the\u00a0<a title=\"The chancellor of the exchequer is the government's chief financial...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/glossary\/?gl=99\">Chancellor of the Exchequer<\/a>\u00a0with reference to his Budget Statement 2012, when he intends to bring forward legislative proposals to give effect to his announced changes to the taxation regime for remote gambling.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"See more information about Sajid Javid\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/mp\/?m=40128\">Sajid Javid<\/a>\u00a0<small>(Bromsgrove, Conservative)<\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"g141859.r0\">\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Implementation of the Government's reform to remote gambling taxation is planned for\u00a01 December 2014. The Government will legislate for the reform in a future\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Finance Bill<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, the\u00a0government\u00a0spotted the problem in early 2012 and by late 2014 they may take action.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime nearly a billion will be lost.<\/p>\n<p>Why make haste when there's only a billion to lose after all?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed another exchange on tax avoidance in parliament yesterday, this one on gambling taxation, no doubt motivated by last week&#8217;s report in The\u00a0Independent\u00a0in\u00a0which\u00a0I commented.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/02\/07\/the-government-will-wait-until-the-end-of-2014-to-stop-tax-avoidance-in-the-gambling-industry-nearly-three-years-after-spotting-the-problem\/\"><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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-avoidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19194","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=19194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}