{"id":44090,"date":"2019-01-24T07:49:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T07:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=44090"},"modified":"2019-01-24T07:49:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T07:49:06","slug":"the-european-commission-is-giving-up-on-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/01\/24\/the-european-commission-is-giving-up-on-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The European Commission is giving up on us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/6ce7c082-1f36-11e9-b2f7-97e4dbd3580d?segmentId=080b04f5-af92-ae6f-0513-095d44fb3577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FT has reported this morning:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brussels is to sue the UK in Europe\u2019s highest court over tax breaks for commodities traders, according to EU diplomats briefed on the plans, escalating a battle that Britain said risked damaging the post-Brexit competitiveness of the City of London.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To some extent the details of this claim do not matter, although I have a strong suspicion the EU has a good case. The interesting question is why bring a claim for a multi-billion euro settlement now when relations are already strained and this can only fuel Brexit sentiment?<\/p>\n<p>There is only one obvious answer. And that is that the Commission now thinks that the UK will crash out of Europe and as a result the Commissuon is intent on securing every remaining claim it has on the UK, come what may.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sign that the Commission is giving up on us, in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>In that case why wouldn\u2019t you want to secure your options now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the FT has reported this morning: Brussels is to sue the UK in Europe\u2019s highest court over tax breaks for commodities traders, according to<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/01\/24\/the-european-commission-is-giving-up-on-us\/\"><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":[44,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-vat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44090","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=44090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}