{"id":23824,"date":"2014-01-27T07:33:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T07:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=23824"},"modified":"2014-01-27T07:33:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T07:33:27","slug":"dear-daily-telegraph-dont-tax-me-or-else-sincerely-a-businessman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/01\/27\/dear-daily-telegraph-dont-tax-me-or-else-sincerely-a-businessman\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Daily Telegraph, Don&#8217;t tax me or else, Sincerely, A Businessman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/politics\/10598254\/Senior-business-figures-hit-out-at-Labours-50p-tax-rate-plan.html\" target=\"_blank\">note a letter in the Telegraph this morning which seems to go something like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>Dear Sir,<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>We are concerned to see Ed Balls and the Labour Party calling for higher taxes on businesses and business people.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>We don't like this, at all. We think Ed Balls is being mean and beasty and nasty and is just a jealous little man.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>As a result we're going to punish Ed Balls if he does this by cancelling the\u00a0investment he wants us to make in the UK even though our\u00a0shareholders will suffer as a result. \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>What's more, we'll shift some jobs abroad as well. Most of them will be for those polishing the brass plaques on our new tax haven headquarters.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Now get really frightened.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Your sincerely<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I think I've got that right.<\/p>\n<p>There will be plenty more of these by May 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I note a letter in the Telegraph this morning which seems to go something like this: Dear Sir, We are concerned to see Ed Balls<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/01\/27\/dear-daily-telegraph-dont-tax-me-or-else-sincerely-a-businessman\/\"><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-23824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23824","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=23824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}