{"id":9791,"date":"2011-04-28T15:59:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T14:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=9791"},"modified":"2011-04-28T15:59:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T14:59:17","slug":"channel-islands-vat-abuse-has-cost-the-uk-at-least-475-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/04\/28\/channel-islands-vat-abuse-has-cost-the-uk-at-least-475-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel Islands&#8217; VAT abuse has cost the UK at least \u00c2\u00a3475 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Commons library has issued a new briefing sheet on VAT abuse involving the Channel Islands. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/briefingpapers\/commons\/lib\/research\/briefings\/snbt-04155.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">It's available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span>The main point is that it has cost the UK Exchequer (who are bound to have undervalued this sum) at least \u00a3475 million over the last four years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now what could that have been used for?<\/p>\n<p>Two new hospitals free of PFI, anyone?<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip to Richard Allen<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Commons library has issued a new briefing sheet on VAT abuse involving the Channel Islands. It&#8217;s available here. The main point is<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/04\/28\/channel-islands-vat-abuse-has-cost-the-uk-at-least-475-million\/\"><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":[4,7,10,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9791","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\/9791","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=9791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}