{"id":323,"date":"2006-12-29T14:38:58","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T12:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2006\/12\/29\/toynbee-spot-on\/"},"modified":"2006-12-29T14:38:58","modified_gmt":"2006-12-29T12:38:58","slug":"toynbee-spot-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2006\/12\/29\/toynbee-spot-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Toynbee &#8211; spot on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polly Toynbee has a new year's wish in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,,1979681,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian today<\/a>. Amongst them this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00ac? Create a standing tax commission to expose who pays what and how fat cats squeeze through loopholes. Get tough on tax exiles: cut the time they can spend here tax-free while stashing their cash in Jersey or Monaco, losing the Treasury escalating sums as the UK turns tax haven itself. Bring a top tax band at \u00a3100,000 as an opportunity tax, earmarked to pay for new life chances for left-behind children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Spot on, I say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polly Toynbee has a new year&#8217;s wish in the Guardian today. Amongst them this: \u00ac? Create a standing tax commission to expose who pays what<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2006\/12\/29\/toynbee-spot-on\/\"><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":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-tax-avoidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","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=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}