{"id":8610,"date":"2011-01-28T11:25:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T09:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=8610"},"modified":"2011-01-28T11:25:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T09:25:12","slug":"forests-open-for-commercial-and-tax-abuse-care-of-the-condems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/01\/28\/forests-open-for-commercial-and-tax-abuse-care-of-the-condems\/","title":{"rendered":"Forests &#8211; open for commercial and tax abuse &#8211; care of the ConDems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2011\/jan\/27\/england-forest-sell-off-activism?INTCMP=SRCH\">the Guardian notes<\/a>, the role of the Big Socoety in the sell of the Forestry Commission is a sham:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px;\">The vast majority of England's public woodland will be offered for sale to commercial businesses, the Guardian has learned from documents suggesting that only 1% will be acquired by communities and 2% by charities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As I've previously noted, this is about commercial exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe - given how important the issue is to a Cabinet of millionaires - <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/01\/07\/forestry-commission-sale-is-a-massive-tax-planning-bonanza-for-the-rich\/\">about inheritance tax abuse.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Objectively, it is hard to see this as anything but the deliberate enclosure of forests for private benefit for the wealthy at cost to all the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p>It's a perfect metaphor for the philosophy of this government in that sense.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder this campaign  is going to be very hard fought.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Guardian notes, the role of the Big Socoety in the sell of the Forestry Commission is a sham: The vast majority of England&#8217;s<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/01\/28\/forests-open-for-commercial-and-tax-abuse-care-of-the-condems\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-condems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8610","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=8610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}