{"id":9218,"date":"2011-03-15T21:13:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T19:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=9218"},"modified":"2011-03-15T21:14:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T19:14:22","slug":"federation-of-small-business-demand-action-on-channel-islands-vat-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/03\/15\/federation-of-small-business-demand-action-on-channel-islands-vat-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Federation of Small Business demand action on Channel Islands VAT abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicweek.com\/story.asp?sectioncode=1&amp;storycode=1044545&amp;c=1\">Music Week reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"standfirst\" style=\"color: #333333;\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.182em; line-height: 1.385; font-weight: ;\">The Federation of Small Businesses has lent its support to the campaign to bring an end to Low Value Consignment Relief, a tax mechanism that indie music retailers say puts them at a disadvantage to the online operators.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.182em; line-height: 1.385;\">The organisation&rsquo;s national policy chairman Mike Cherry has written to the EC&rsquo;s directorate general for taxation and customs union on behalf of the FSB&rsquo;s 213,000 members in the UK outlining why the EC must act on the issue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Good for them.<\/p>\n<p>This is about creating a level playing field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Music Week reports: The Federation of Small Businesses has lent its support to the campaign to bring an end to Low Value Consignment Relief,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/03\/15\/federation-of-small-business-demand-action-on-channel-islands-vat-abuse\/\"><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":[4,7,10,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guernsey","category-jersey","category-tax-avoidance","category-vat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9218","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=9218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}