{"id":42987,"date":"2018-09-04T08:38:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T07:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=42987"},"modified":"2018-09-04T09:06:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T08:06:16","slug":"those-in-tax-debate-need-to-get-the-basics-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/09\/04\/those-in-tax-debate-need-to-get-the-basics-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Those involved in tax debate need to get the basics right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.covi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Responsible-Tax-Lab-Follow-the-money-Common-Vision-Sept-2018-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PWC want to sponsor this<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/09\/04\/those-in-tax-debate-need-to-get-the-basics-right\/screen-shot-2018-09-04-at-08-28-17\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42988\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-42988\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-04-at-08.28.17-550x788.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-04-at-08.28.17-550x788.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-04-at-08.28.17-209x300.png 209w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-04-at-08.28.17-768x1100.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-04-at-08.28.17-279x400.png 279w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-04-at-08.28.17.png 1064w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In fairness, the report ends up saying hypothecation is not a panacea.<\/p>\n<p>But it does not dismiss it and that's because the assumption is that tax pays for government services.<\/p>\n<p>It's becoming deeply frustrating that many supposedly engaged in debate on tax do not even seem to understand what it is, what it does and what it is for.<\/p>\n<p>Getting the basics right would really help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did PWC want to sponsor this? In fairness, the report ends up saying hypothecation is not a panacea. But it does not dismiss it<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/09\/04\/those-in-tax-debate-need-to-get-the-basics-right\/\"><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":[35,174,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-modern-monetary-theory","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42987","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=42987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}