{"id":19822,"date":"2013-03-26T07:17:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T07:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=19822"},"modified":"2013-03-26T07:17:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T07:17:57","slug":"right-now-the-story-of-cyprus-the-tax-haven-looks-likely-to-be-one-big-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/03\/26\/right-now-the-story-of-cyprus-the-tax-haven-looks-likely-to-be-one-big-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Right now the story of Cyprus the tax haven looks likely to be one big bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I l<a href=\"http:\/\/business.time.com\/2013\/03\/25\/cyprus-rescue-the-destruction-of-a-tax-haven\/#ixzz2OcyydZRz\" target=\"_blank\">iked this in Time\u00a0magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the aftermath of the crisis, once the passions have ebbed, no doubt someone will try to calculate in detail the costs and the benefits to Cyprus of having been an offshore financial haven. Right now, though, it looks like it was a big bust.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So true.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of the story of the optimist\u00a0jumping\u00a0from the 100\u00a0storey\u00a0building. After 99 storeys he thinks \"this is fun\".<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0suspect\u00a0there will be more than\u00a0Cyprus\u00a0who come to that view sometime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this in Time\u00a0magazine: In the aftermath of the crisis, once the passions have ebbed, no doubt someone will try to calculate in detail<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/03\/26\/right-now-the-story-of-cyprus-the-tax-haven-looks-likely-to-be-one-big-bust\/\"><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":[80,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-secrecy-jurisdictions","category-tax-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19822","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=19822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}