{"id":81588,"date":"2025-04-12T17:04:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T16:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=81588"},"modified":"2025-04-12T17:04:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T16:04:34","slug":"on-taxes-on-wealth-in-the-express-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/04\/12\/on-taxes-on-wealth-in-the-express-today\/","title":{"rendered":"On taxes on wealth in the Express today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/finance\/personalfinance\/2039742\/rachel-reeves-hike-three-taxes-slash-pensions-tax-relief-war-on-wealth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is in the Express today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-81591\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-12-at-16.59.08-550x295.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-12-at-16.59.08-550x295.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-12-at-16.59.08-768x411.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-12-at-16.59.08-600x321.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-12-at-16.59.08.png 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-81590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-12-at-16.59.20-550x172.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-12-at-16.59.20-550x172.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-12-at-16.59.20-768x240.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-12-at-16.59.20-600x187.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-12-at-16.59.20.png 794w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/finance\/personalfinance\/2039742\/rachel-reeves-hike-three-taxes-slash-pensions-tax-relief-war-on-wealth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rest is here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They suggest people should brace themselves for what I have to say, which is really quite funny.<\/p>\n<p>My argument counters posts featuring the Institute of Economic Affairs (saying there must be no wealth taxes, because that would destroy the economy, because the rich must be bribed to work, which is pure drivel) and from Tax Justice UK, who argued for a wealth tax, ignoring (of course) why it could not work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is in the Express today: The rest is here. They suggest people should brace themselves for what I have to say, which is really<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/04\/12\/on-taxes-on-wealth-in-the-express-today\/\"><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":[204,35,118,106,50,97,209,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-labour","category-politics","category-tax-gap","category-tax-justice","category-taxing-wealth-report","category-wealth-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81588","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=81588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81592,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81588\/revisions\/81592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}