{"id":5186,"date":"2009-10-22T17:25:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T15:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=5186"},"modified":"2009-10-22T17:25:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T15:25:12","slug":"vat-the-tories%e2%80%99-favourite-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/22\/vat-the-tories%e2%80%99-favourite-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"VAT: The Tories&rsquo; favourite tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxpayersalliance.org\/news\/vat-the-tories-favourite-tax\">The Other TaxPayers' Alliance | VAT: The Tories&rsquo; favourite tax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Clifford Singer lists a long whole range of alternatives to a VAT rise, which the Tories are bound to deliver, and notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let's also remember who increased VAT from 15% to 17.5% in the first place: that party of low taxes, the Conservatives, in 1991. And who increased it from 8% to 15% before that? The Tories, in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>That 1979 rise was particularly deceitful as it followed chancellor-to-be Geoffrey Howe's election promise that \"we have absolutely no intention of doubling VAT\". The Daily Mail listed the \"double VAT\" charge as one of \"Labour&rsquo;s dirty dozen lies\" days before the election. The Ministry of Truth website lists Howe's promise as one of its \"<a href=\"http:\/\/mo-truth.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/great-political-porkies-of-our-time-pt.html\" target=\"_blank\">top 10 political porkies of our time<\/a>\".<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No doubt to be repeated soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Other TaxPayers&#8217; Alliance | VAT: The Tories&rsquo; favourite tax. Clifford Singer lists a long whole range of alternatives to a VAT rise, which the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/22\/vat-the-tories%e2%80%99-favourite-tax\/\"><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":[96,16,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-ethics","category-vat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186","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=5186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}