{"id":8949,"date":"2011-02-21T10:02:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T08:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=8949"},"modified":"2011-02-21T10:02:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T08:02:20","slug":"osborne-friend-of-bankers-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/02\/21\/osborne-friend-of-bankers-yet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Osborne &#8211; friend of bankers&#8217;, yet again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2011\/feb\/20\/george-osborne-bank-tax-plan?CMP=twt_gu\">Guardian notes:<\/a><\/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;\">In December 2009 Osborne suggested that one way to make banks make a contribution to society would be to stop them offsetting their losses against tax \u2014 a standard practice for the business community.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It is, of course, a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/02\/20\/banks-their-losses-and-why-they-wont-be-paying-tax-for-some-time-to-come-at-cost-to-the-rest-of-us\/\">n idea I have been promoting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But Osborne has abandoned it now he's in office. He has now, of course, to keep his future employment options open since he's a one term Chancellor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Guardian notes: In December 2009 Osborne suggested that one way to make banks make a contribution to society would be to stop them<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/02\/21\/osborne-friend-of-bankers-yet-again\/\"><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":[70,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking","category-condems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949","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=8949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}