{"id":26844,"date":"2014-11-27T12:09:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T12:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=26844"},"modified":"2014-11-27T12:09:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T12:09:59","slug":"scottish-devolution-of-powers-lets-the-tax-competition-brigade-loose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/11\/27\/scottish-devolution-of-powers-lets-the-tax-competition-brigade-loose\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish devolution of powers lets the tax competition brigade loose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a debate going on in parliament right now on the devolution of powers to Scotland.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/blog\/live\/2014\/nov\/27\/scotland-should-control-income-tax-says-smith-commission-reaction-politics-live-blog#block-5476f84ae4b012ac8415b533\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0According to the Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Sir Tony Baldry,<\/strong> a Conservative, says he hopes these plans will lead to \u201chealthy competition\u201d between London and Edinburgh to set the lowest rate of tax.<\/p>\n<p>Carmichael (Secretary of State for Scotland) says that could be one of the consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Giving the Scottish parliament power over taxation could have a \u201ctransformative effect\u201d, he says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let's be clear: all competition is based on the notion that participants can fail. There is no way we can afford failed government, but that's what these fools want.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the Scottish power over tax is only over a tiny range of rates. To suggest that this will be transformative is absurd: it will definitely muddy political waters and let each and every fool with a high horse of bigotry and right wing ideology to ride gallop forth but more than that this will achieve nothing, most especially for the people of Scotland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a debate going on in parliament right now on the devolution of powers to Scotland.\u00a0According to the Guardian: Sir Tony Baldry, a Conservative,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/11\/27\/scottish-devolution-of-powers-lets-the-tax-competition-brigade-loose\/\"><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":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26844","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=26844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}