{"id":74957,"date":"2024-04-09T16:51:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T15:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=74957"},"modified":"2024-04-09T16:51:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T15:51:21","slug":"rachel-reeves-is-looking-in-the-wrong-place-if-shes-trying-to-solve-the-tax-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/04\/09\/rachel-reeves-is-looking-in-the-wrong-place-if-shes-trying-to-solve-the-tax-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Reeves is looking in the wrong place if she\u2019s trying to solve the tax gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this video on TikTok this afternoon:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@richardjmurphy\/video\/7355882711321513249\" data-video-id=\"7355882711321513249\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width:605px; min-width:325px;\">\n<section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@richardjmurphy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@richardjmurphy?refer=embed\">@richardjmurphy<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Rachel Reeves and the tax gap Rachel Reeves has suddenly decided that she will close the tax gap. However, she thinks the money that she will find is currently offshore, but she's wrong. If she's going to raise serious money that's currently not paid in tax she has to look to the UK small business community who are currently not paying up to \u00a33 in every \u00a310 that they owe. <a title=\"tax\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/tax?refer=embed\">#tax<\/a> <a title=\"uk\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/uk?refer=embed\">#uk<\/a> <a title=\"rachelreeves\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/rachelreeves?refer=embed\">#rachelreeves<\/a> <a title=\"labour\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/labour?refer=embed\">#labour<\/a> <a title=\"labourparty\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/labourparty?refer=embed\">#labourparty<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Richard Murphy - Richard Murphy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-Richard-Murphy-7355882759552486177?refer=embed\">\u266c original sound - Richard Murphy - Richard Murphy<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this video on TikTok this afternoon: @richardjmurphy Rachel Reeves and the tax gap Rachel Reeves has suddenly decided that she will close the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/04\/09\/rachel-reeves-is-looking-in-the-wrong-place-if-shes-trying-to-solve-the-tax-gap\/\"><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":[35,118,106,50,97,209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-labour","category-politics","category-tax-gap","category-tax-justice","category-taxing-wealth-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74957","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=74957"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74961,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74957\/revisions\/74961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}