{"id":24163,"date":"2014-02-24T09:13:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T09:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=24163"},"modified":"2014-02-24T09:13:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T09:13:08","slug":"tax-700000-empty-homes-in-the-uk-back-into-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/02\/24\/tax-700000-empty-homes-in-the-uk-back-into-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax 700,000 empty homes in the UK back into use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2014\/feb\/23\/europe-11m-empty-properties-enough-house-homeless-continent-twice\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian rightly points out the scandal of there being at least 700,000 empty properties in the UK this morning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I first addressed this issue in 2009 for the TUC, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/02\/03\/an-empty-property-tax-my-2009-proposal-for-the-tuc-needs-to-be-revisited\/\" target=\"_blank\">and again earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We should tax these properties back into use by massively increasing the council tax charge on them. Some would still sit vacant. But many fewer would.<\/p>\n<p>Tax can be a good thing. This is an occasion when it could definitely deliver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian rightly points out the scandal of there being at least 700,000 empty properties in the UK this morning. I first addressed this issue<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/02\/24\/tax-700000-empty-homes-in-the-uk-back-into-use\/\"><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":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24163","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=24163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}