{"id":52133,"date":"2020-08-10T07:35:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T06:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=52133"},"modified":"2020-08-10T07:35:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T06:35:43","slug":"what-is-capital-gains-tax-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/08\/10\/what-is-capital-gains-tax-all-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What is capital gains tax all about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government is undertaking a review of capital gains tax, but it's my suggestion that very few people seem to have much understanding of why we have this tax, and what it is meant to achieve. That's what this video is about.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What is Capital Gains Tax as described by  Richard Murphy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UlIqm5UXvmQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/07\/31\/the-case-for-capital-gains-tax-reform-a-submission-to-the-office-for-tax-simplification\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">submission to the Office for Tax Simplification<\/a> on this issue is here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is undertaking a review of capital gains tax, but it&#8217;s my suggestion that very few people seem to have much understanding of why<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/08\/10\/what-is-capital-gains-tax-all-about\/\"><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":[53,10,97,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capital-gains-tax","category-tax-avoidance","category-tax-justice","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52133","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=52133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}