{"id":36018,"date":"2017-01-15T10:58:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T10:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=36018"},"modified":"2017-01-15T10:58:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T10:58:25","slug":"tax-haven-uk-is-philip-hammonds-dream-the-reality-is-that-tax-havens-are-a-nightmare-for-everyone-but-a-wealthy-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/01\/15\/tax-haven-uk-is-philip-hammonds-dream-the-reality-is-that-tax-havens-are-a-nightmare-for-everyone-but-a-wealthy-elite\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax haven UK is Philip Hammond&#8217;s dream. The reality is that tax havens are a nightmare for everyone but a wealthy elite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would seem that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/jan\/15\/philip-hammond-suggests-uk-outside-single-market-could-become-tax-haven\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Hammond wants to turn the UK into a tax haven <\/a>as a result of Brexit. Here are some of my thoughts on Philip Hammond's dream, offered on Twitter this morning:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/01\/15\/tax-haven-uk-is-philip-hammonds-dream-the-reality-is-that-tax-havens-are-a-nightmare-for-everyone-but-a-wealthy-elite\/screen-shot-2017-01-15-at-10-51-12\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36019\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36019\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-15-at-10.51.12-550x975.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-01-15 at 10.51.12\" width=\"550\" height=\"975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-15-at-10.51.12-550x975.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-15-at-10.51.12-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-15-at-10.51.12-768x1362.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-15-at-10.51.12-127x225.png 127w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-15-at-10.51.12-74x132.png 74w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-15-at-10.51.12.png 1040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My new book - 'Dirty Secrets - How tax havens destroy the economy' -will have much more on this theme. Out on 7 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would seem that Philip Hammond wants to turn the UK into a tax haven as a result of Brexit. Here are some of my<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/01\/15\/tax-haven-uk-is-philip-hammonds-dream-the-reality-is-that-tax-havens-are-a-nightmare-for-everyone-but-a-wealthy-elite\/\"><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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36018","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=36018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}