{"id":31951,"date":"2016-01-11T17:20:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T17:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=31951"},"modified":"2016-01-11T18:02:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T18:02:06","slug":"scottish-tax-devolution-a-more-balanced-report-of-my-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/01\/11\/scottish-tax-devolution-a-more-balanced-report-of-my-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish tax devolution: a more balanced report of my views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who can get behind the Times paywall (and I am not sure if this article is ring fenced by it or not) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/news\/uk\/scotland\/article4662319.ece\" target=\"_blank\">a much more balanced report of my views on the devolution of tax powers to Scotland was published<\/a> in the Scottish edition of that paper on Saturday and on the web this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>It would seem as if the SNP reacted to this as if I spoke for Labour: I don't. I only speak for myself.<\/p>\n<p>The Labour reaction to it is quite odd: changing the rate of national insurance contribution made by an employer does not change the entitlement to pension benefits so the comment made makes no sense.<\/p>\n<p>I offer it for debate.<\/p>\n<p>When I get time (and it is in very short supply) I will write a more comprehensive review here. But right now writing a course for my students has higher priority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who can get behind the Times paywall (and I am not sure if this article is ring fenced by it or not) a<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/01\/11\/scottish-tax-devolution-a-more-balanced-report-of-my-views\/\"><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-31951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31951","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=31951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}