{"id":5109,"date":"2009-10-14T19:53:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T17:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/14\/its-always-been-politics\/"},"modified":"2009-10-14T19:53:07","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T17:53:07","slug":"its-always-been-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/14\/its-always-been-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"It&rsquo;s always been politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spot the trend:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>G20<\/li>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0161\u00c3\u201e\u00c3\u00b2Maundy Thursday letters&rsquo; to Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories<\/li>\n<li>Turks &amp; Caicos taken over<\/li>\n<li>Cayman told to tax in return for permission to borrow<\/li>\n<li>Isle of Man told VAT subsidy to be reduced<\/li>\n<li>UK refuses to support \u00e2\u20ac\u0161\u00c3\u201e\u00c3\u00b2zero\/ten&rsquo; regimes in the Crown Dependencies <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are not unconnected events. They show that the tax havens have always, and only, existed with tacit political support.<\/p>\n<p>And it seems very likely that London has now withdrawn that support. <\/p>\n<p>This is the really big news.<\/p>\n<p>How big? well my blog as already (and it&rsquo;s only 6.50pm) had its third biggest ever day of traffic. It&rsquo;s a crude guide \u2014 but it certainly says something is up \u2014 and people are worried.<\/p>\n<p>They should be. The next step is what to do about it. Some may think my offer if help is not serious \u2014 but it is. I have proven I really o understand this issue. Now it&rsquo;s time to get these places out of the mess they&rsquo;re in. And I&rsquo;m keen to see them do that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spot the trend: G20 \u00e2\u20ac\u0161\u00c3\u201e\u00c3\u00b2Maundy Thursday letters&rsquo; to Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories Turks &amp; Caicos taken over Cayman told to tax in return<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/14\/its-always-been-politics\/\"><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":[22,4,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cayman","category-guernsey","category-isle-of-man","category-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109","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=5109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}