{"id":81997,"date":"2025-05-01T07:07:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T06:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=81997"},"modified":"2025-05-01T07:07:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T06:07:35","slug":"the-house-of-lords-the-rich-and-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/05\/01\/the-house-of-lords-the-rich-and-the-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"The House of Lords: the rich and the poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it worth sharing this video from Prem Sikka, who is an old friend of mine, another Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Sheffield, and someone with whom I have worked on many occasions with regards to tax justice. Prem is now a member of the House of Lords.<\/p>\n<p>The clip is of a question Prem asked with regard to the regressive nature of the UK tax system.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that you will be more than able to form your own opinion of the feeble answer provided by the designated government minister, which entirely missed the purpose of his question, no doubt deliberately.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"House of Lords Taxes rich and poor 29 April 2025\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oW8E6ZYbYTU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it worth sharing this video from Prem Sikka, who is an old friend of mine, another Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/05\/01\/the-house-of-lords-the-rich-and-the-poor\/\"><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":[204,35,16,147,97,209,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-ethics","category-inequality","category-tax-justice","category-taxing-wealth-report","category-wealth-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81997","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=81997"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82005,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81997\/revisions\/82005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}