{"id":5312,"date":"2009-11-08T13:26:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T11:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=5312"},"modified":"2009-11-08T13:26:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T11:26:05","slug":"middle-britain-caught-in-blitz-on-tax-havens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/11\/08\/middle-britain-caught-in-blitz-on-tax-havens\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Britain caught in blitz on tax havens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/money\/article-1226049\/Middle-Britain-caught-blitz-tax-havens.html\">Middle Britain caught in blitz on tax havens  | Mail Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bizarre article from the Mail on Sunday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Revenue &amp; Customs investigators are training their sights on the middle classes as part of a crackdown on tax evasion.<\/p>\n<p>They plan to prosecute anyone who fails to own up by the end of this month to earning money in an offshore bank account.<\/p>\n<p>A special 20-strong team is being put together to investigate suspicious cases and identify tens of thousands of people thought to be using tax havens to evade the Revenue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What are they trying to say? Only prosecute the working class who commit what they call 'benefit fraud' whilst leaving alone those middle class who tax evade?<\/p>\n<p>It's hard to find another interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>And that, to misquote the Taxpayer's Alliance is \"outrageous\".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle Britain caught in blitz on tax havens | Mail Online. Bizarre article from the Mail on Sunday: Revenue &amp; Customs investigators are training their<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/11\/08\/middle-britain-caught-in-blitz-on-tax-havens\/\"><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":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-evasion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312","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=5312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}