{"id":71905,"date":"2023-09-18T07:57:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T06:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=71905"},"modified":"2023-09-18T07:57:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T06:57:59","slug":"britain-is-not-a-highly-taxed-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/09\/18\/britain-is-not-a-highly-taxed-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain is not a highly taxed country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This chart was included in a Martin Wolf article in the FT yesterday, but is worth noting in its own right:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-71906\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-18-at-07.55.55-550x763.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-18-at-07.55.55-550x763.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-18-at-07.55.55-216x300.png 216w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-18-at-07.55.55-768x1065.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-18-at-07.55.55-288x400.png 288w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-18-at-07.55.55.png 978w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The pretence that the UK is over-taxed is just that: it is a pretence not supported by the evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This chart was included in a Martin Wolf article in the FT yesterday, but is worth noting in its own right: The pretence that the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/09\/18\/britain-is-not-a-highly-taxed-country\/\"><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":[97,209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-justice","category-taxing-wealth-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71905","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=71905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71907,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71905\/revisions\/71907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}