{"id":27763,"date":"2015-02-09T12:10:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T12:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=27763"},"modified":"2015-02-09T12:10:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T12:10:24","slug":"200000-people-were-prosecuted-for-not-having-a-tv-licence-last-year-but-hmrc-wont-prosecute-swiss-tax-cheats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/02\/09\/200000-people-were-prosecuted-for-not-having-a-tv-licence-last-year-but-hmrc-wont-prosecute-swiss-tax-cheats\/","title":{"rendered":"200,000 people were prosecuted for not having a TV licence last year but HMRC won&#8217;t prosecute Swiss tax cheats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2014\/sep\/24\/in-court-non-payment-tv-licence-television-desperate-cases\" target=\"_blank\">more than 200,000 people were prosecuted for not having a TV licence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More than fifty - many of them women - went to prison for it.<\/p>\n<p>But HMRC <a title=\"Why isn\u2019t prosecuting tax cheats in the public interest in HMRC\u2019s opinion?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/02\/09\/why-isnt-prosecuting-tax-cheats-in-the-public-interest-in-hmrcs-opinion\/\" target=\"_blank\">say it is not in the public interest<\/a> to prosecute tax criminals and the bankers and accountants who set arrangements for them.<\/p>\n<p>How can that be?<\/p>\n<p>Which minister wants to explain how we go to this absurd position?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year more than 200,000 people were prosecuted for not having a TV licence. More than fifty &#8211; many of them women &#8211; went to<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/02\/09\/200000-people-were-prosecuted-for-not-having-a-tv-licence-last-year-but-hmrc-wont-prosecute-swiss-tax-cheats\/\"><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":[70,16,107,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking","category-ethics","category-hmrc","category-tax-evasion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27763","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=27763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}