{"id":28270,"date":"2015-03-16T07:50:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T07:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=28270"},"modified":"2015-03-16T07:50:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T07:50:59","slug":"danny-alexander-misses-the-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/03\/16\/danny-alexander-misses-the-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Alexander misses the mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Alexander<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/government-paves-the-way-for-reform-of-business-rates\" target=\"_blank\"> has announced a review of business rates to report in 2016<\/a>. That's a touch optimistic of him: by then I suspect he will have forgotten what Westminster looks like, but that's not my reason for mentioning this review.<\/p>\n<p>My question is how can such a review be started without land value taxation being explicitly mentioned?<\/p>\n<p>The ever-present ability of politicians to miss the point is all too apparent here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Alexander has announced a review of business rates to report in 2016. That&#8217;s a touch optimistic of him: by then I suspect he will<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/03\/16\/danny-alexander-misses-the-mark\/\"><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-28270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28270","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=28270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}