{"id":3090,"date":"2009-02-05T10:22:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T08:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/02\/05\/why-gordon\/"},"modified":"2009-02-05T10:22:42","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T08:22:42","slug":"why-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/02\/05\/why-gordon\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Gordon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/tax-gap-blog\/2009\/feb\/04\/5\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Brown presided over the tax system for 10 years, ushering in much anti-avoidance legislation but also several business-friendly reviews and \"light touch\" regulation from HM Revenue &amp; Customs. He also rejected a general anti-avoidance rule as too onerous.<\/p>\n<p>So when he was questioned on the subject on the floor of the House, shouldn't the greatest chancellor for decades have been capable of a more coherent reply?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The reason? He completely fluffed answers to Nick Clegg arising from the Guardian's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/series\/tax-gap\" target=\"_blank\">Tax Gap series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Worrying. You'd have thought this was one thing he did know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Guardian: Brown presided over the tax system for 10 years, ushering in much anti-avoidance legislation but also several business-friendly reviews and &#8220;light touch&#8221;<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/02\/05\/why-gordon\/\"><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":[10,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-avoidance","category-tax-gap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090","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=3090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}