{"id":3138,"date":"2009-02-11T17:20:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T15:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/02\/11\/another-398-billion-subsidy-for-the-isle-of-man\/"},"modified":"2009-02-11T19:09:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T17:09:52","slug":"another-398-million-subsidy-for-the-isle-of-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/02\/11\/another-398-million-subsidy-for-the-isle-of-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Another \u00c2\u00a339.8 million subsidy for the Isle of Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/isleofmanpensionersassociation.com\/comservices.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Isle of Man Pensioners Association<\/a> have an interesting calculation on their web site.<\/p>\n<p>As they show, it costs \u00a3527 a head for defence in the UK in 2007\/08.<\/p>\n<p>This is a cost to which the Isle of Man is meant to contribute. But it actually only pays \u00a330.27 per head.<\/p>\n<p>If it paid at the same rate as the UK (and there is no reason why not that I can think of) then the contribution should be \u00a342.2 million. It actually pays \u00a32.4 million. That's a subsidy of \u00a339.8 million to add to that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/02\/10\/the-isle-of-man-still-subsidised-by-the-uk-to-be-a-tax-haven\/\" target=\"_blank\">mentioned yesterday on<\/a> VAT of \u00a3221 million.<\/p>\n<p>Which comes to near enough \u00a3260 million in all.<\/p>\n<p>Why are we wasting money in this way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Isle of Man Pensioners Association have an interesting calculation on their web site. As they show, it costs \u00a3527 a head for defence in<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/02\/11\/another-398-million-subsidy-for-the-isle-of-man\/\"><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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isle-of-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138","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=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}