{"id":8710,"date":"2011-02-04T11:41:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T09:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=8710"},"modified":"2011-02-04T11:41:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T09:41:10","slug":"an-mp-praises-tax-havens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/02\/04\/an-mp-praises-tax-havens\/","title":{"rendered":"An MP praises tax havens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manxradio.com\/newsread.aspx?id=50045\">Manx Radio reports<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 10px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: #666666; margin: 0px;\">A Conservative MP in a key London constituency is urging a more balanced debate on the offshore financial centres.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 10px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: #666666; margin: 0px;\">Mark Field, the member for the City, was speaking at the chief minister's International Lecture at the Palace Hotel last night (Thursday).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 10px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: #666666; margin: 0px;\">He complemented the Isle of Man on its regulatory stance, mentioning the latest tax agreement signed yesterday with Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-style: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 10px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: #666666; margin: 0px;\">Mr Field said the time had arrived for the debate on the international offshore centres to be reopened.<\/p>\n<p>But then note what that key London constituency is: it is the City of London.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, quelle surprise! The MP for the City of London supports tax havens. Tell us news. He's the MP for one.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Manx Radio reports; A Conservative MP in a key London constituency is urging a more balanced debate on the offshore financial centres. Mark Field,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/02\/04\/an-mp-praises-tax-havens\/\"><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":[136,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-of-london","category-isle-of-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8710","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=8710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}