{"id":5055,"date":"2009-10-10T11:38:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T09:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=5055"},"modified":"2009-10-10T11:59:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T09:59:12","slug":"taxpayers-alliance-director-is-not-alone-in-benefitting-from-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/10\/taxpayers-alliance-director-is-not-alone-in-benefitting-from-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxpayers&#8217; Alliance director is not alone in benefitting from the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2009\/oct\/09\/taxpayers-alliance-director-tax\"> Taxpayers' Alliance admits director doesn't pay British tax | \t\t\t\tPolitics | \t\t\t\tThe Guardian <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian does an appropriate and timely hatchet job on my friends in the Taxpayer's Alliance, and notes along the way that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Guardian has learned that Alexander Heath, a director of the increasingly influential free market, rightwing lobby group, lives in a farmhouse in the Loire and has not paid British tax for years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For years, read 1973 - the year the UK joined the EU, which allowed Heath to move to France.<\/p>\n<p>But he's not alone in seeking to influence the UK from the far right whilst living far away. Note that the Wikipedia entry for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tim_Worstall\">Tim Worstall<\/a> says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since September 2007, Worstall has been the press officer for the <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"UK Independence Party\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UK_Independence_Party\">UK Independence Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He lives in <a title=\"Portugal\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portugal\">Portugal<\/a> with his wife.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess that's one form of independence from the UK, Rather odd though that Worstall only has the right to live in Portugal becasue the UK is a member of the EU.<\/p>\n<p>What is it about the Euro-hating tax bashers that makes them want to live in the EU? Could it be that they're just a bunch of hypocrites after all? Surely not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxpayers&#8217; Alliance admits director doesn&#8217;t pay British tax | Politics | The Guardian . The Guardian does an appropriate and timely hatchet job on my<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/10\/taxpayers-alliance-director-is-not-alone-in-benefitting-from-the-eu\/\"><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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055","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=5055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}