{"id":43064,"date":"2018-09-11T07:50:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T06:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=43064"},"modified":"2018-09-11T07:50:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T06:50:42","slug":"the-brexit-tax-dream-is-undeliverable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/09\/11\/the-brexit-tax-dream-is-undeliverable\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brexit tax dream is undeliverable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/fce2c8ea-b4d7-11e8-bbc3-ccd7de085ffe?segmentId=080b04f5-af92-ae6f-0513-095d44fb3577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to the FT<\/a> the planned publication of a post\u00a0Brexit\u00a0plan by the Tory European Reform Group was about much more than the mere technicalities of border arrangements:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People familiar with the 140-page draft Brexit blueprint overseen by the European Research Group said it included proposals for radical, across-the-board tax cuts to remodel Britain\u2019s economy after leaving the EU.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So the Laffer curve\u00a0driven fantasy persists.<\/p>\n<p>But as they added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But these people also said the document was of \u201cdubious quality\u201d and contained a number of eccentric ideas<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the plan has been dropped because they cannot agree what to say.<\/p>\n<p>There would appear to be disunity everywhere. But that might, at least, save us from the tax fools. Their dream is undeliverable. I am at the point where I say thank you for small mercies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According\u00a0to the FT the planned publication of a post\u00a0Brexit\u00a0plan by the Tory European Reform Group was about much more than the mere technicalities of border<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/09\/11\/the-brexit-tax-dream-is-undeliverable\/\"><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":[96,35,44,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-economics","category-europe","category-tax-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43064","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=43064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}