{"id":5132,"date":"2009-10-18T08:20:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T06:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=5132"},"modified":"2009-10-18T08:20:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T06:20:53","slug":"new-tax-on-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/18\/new-tax-on-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"New tax on banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/newsbysector\/banksandfinance\/6360827\/Tax-raid-on-banks-planned-by-ministers.html\">Tax raid on banks planned by ministers  - Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Crikey - that was quick - <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/17\/polly-bank-and-tax-losses\/\" target=\"_blank\">Polly argued for this in the Guardian<\/a> - I've argued for it, often and now the Telegraph says it's going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like a Pre-Budget Report warm up to me<\/p>\n<p>And I am quite convinced it is the right thing to do. Banks have to repay society. Banks are liquid now - using government money. If they need new capital they should raise it, not save it. And HMG needs the tax - plus to cost of doing business for banks has to increase.<\/p>\n<p>Go for it, I say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tax raid on banks planned by ministers &#8211; Telegraph. Crikey &#8211; that was quick &#8211; Polly argued for this in the Guardian &#8211; I&#8217;ve argued<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/18\/new-tax-on-banks\/\"><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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132","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=5132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}