{"id":20119,"date":"2013-04-16T15:08:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T14:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=20119"},"modified":"2013-04-16T15:08:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T14:08:34","slug":"the-general-anti-tax-avoidance-principle-bill-rides-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/04\/16\/the-general-anti-tax-avoidance-principle-bill-rides-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The General Anti-Tax Avoidance Principle Bill rides again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote an alternative to the government's proposed\u00a0General Anti-Abuse Rule last year, which was tabled by Michael Meacher MP as the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/services.parliament.uk\/bills\/2012-13\/generalantitaxavoidanceprinciple.html\" target=\"_blank\">General Anti-Tax Avoidance Principle Bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It did, like most private member's bills, fail.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0Michael\u00a0has tabled the entire bill as an amendment to this year's Finance Act for discussion tomorrow, and I'm delighted that Carline\u00a0Lucas\u00a0has\u00a0supported\u00a0him in doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Of course there is no chance that the amendment will be accepted, but it is\u00a0vital\u00a0that the flaws in the\u00a0General Anti-Abuse Rule,<a title=\"The General Anti-Abuse Rule is a step in the right direction, but we have a long way to go to beat tax avoidance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/04\/16\/the-general-anti-abuse-rule-is-a-step-in-the-right-direction-but-we-have-a-long-way-to-go-to-het-the-attack-on-tax-avoidance-right\/\" target=\"_blank\"> outlined here this morning<\/a>, are challenged and\u00a0Michael\u00a0continues\u00a0to do just that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote an alternative to the government&#8217;s proposed\u00a0General Anti-Abuse Rule last year, which was tabled by Michael Meacher MP as the\u00a0General Anti-Tax Avoidance Principle Bill.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/04\/16\/the-general-anti-tax-avoidance-principle-bill-rides-again\/\"><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-20119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gantip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20119","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=20119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}