{"id":53280,"date":"2020-10-07T10:18:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T09:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=53280"},"modified":"2020-10-07T10:22:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T09:22:08","slug":"whatever-liz-truss-says-about-freeports-today-their-greatest-benefit-is-to-tax-abusers-and-worse-still-organised-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/10\/07\/whatever-liz-truss-says-about-freeports-today-their-greatest-benefit-is-to-tax-abusers-and-worse-still-organised-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever Liz Truss says about freeports today, their greatest benefit is to tax abusers and, worse still, organised crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liz Truss is, apparently, out and about, promoting freeports today.<\/p>\n<p>I recently submitted<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/07\/07\/freeports-the-new-tax-havens-that-the-government-wants-to-create-in-the-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0a fairly lengthy comment<\/a>\u00a0to the Government's consultation on the creation of new Freeport in the UK, suggesting that it was almost impossible to identify any benefits that might arise from this proposal, whilst there were plenty of downsides to all-too-easily spot. This video builds on the ideas in that submission, pointing all the issues (including opportunities for the facilitation of crime) that such arrangements usually provide:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What are Freeports and should the UK have them?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_mqo2UG3cNw?feature=oembed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/07\/07\/freeports-the-new-tax-havens-that-the-government-wants-to-create-in-the-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote more on this issue<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liz Truss is, apparently, out and about, promoting freeports today. I recently submitted\u00a0a fairly lengthy comment\u00a0to the Government&#8217;s consultation on the creation of new Freeport<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/10\/07\/whatever-liz-truss-says-about-freeports-today-their-greatest-benefit-is-to-tax-abusers-and-worse-still-organised-crime\/\"><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":[33,55,50,32,97,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-compliance","category-tax-evasion","category-tax-gap","category-tax-havens","category-tax-justice","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53280","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=53280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}