{"id":7605,"date":"2015-02-10T20:14:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T18:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7605"},"modified":"2015-02-10T20:14:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T18:14:31","slug":"dodging-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7605","title":{"rendered":"Dodging Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The big story of today is tax evasion in the Swiss office of Britain&#8217;s biggest bank and who knew about what when, from Cameron downwards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Part of the problem is Britain&#8217;s tax code which runs to 17000 pages. Within it are multitudes of allowances, as well as loopholes and ambiguities. It is only a small step from an allowance to a loophole and from avoidance which is legal to evasion which is not. The solution may lie with a great deal of simplification, so that like VAT or PAYE there is little scope for argument or fraud without committing a crime. This blog favours the abolition of coporation tax\u00a0and\u00a0at the same time profit as a taxable event. Instead a turnover tax which would be paid wherever the money was transacted, irrespective of where the individual or corporation was domiciled, even if head office were on the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big story of today is tax evasion in the Swiss office of Britain&#8217;s biggest bank and who knew about what when, from Cameron downwards. Part of the problem is Britain&#8217;s tax code which runs to 17000 pages. Within it are multitudes of allowances, as well as loopholes and ambiguities. It is only a small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7607,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605\/revisions\/7607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}