{"id":4502,"date":"2011-01-04T10:46:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T09:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4502"},"modified":"2011-01-04T10:46:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T09:46:38","slug":"the-rise-in-vat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4502","title":{"rendered":"The rise in VAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight months ago, I did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2317\">a posting<\/a> on why value added tax (VAT) would go up whoever won the then impending General Election. Today VAT rose from 17.5% to 20% &#8211; the highest ever level.<\/p>\n<p>The tax is regressive and will hit hardest low income families and it comes at a time when the economy is fragile and demand is already threatened by public expenditure cuts and rising unemployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight months ago, I did a posting on why value added tax (VAT) would go up whoever won the then impending General Election. Today VAT rose from 17.5% to 20% &#8211; the highest ever level. The tax is regressive and will hit hardest low income families and it comes at a time when the economy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4504,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502\/revisions\/4504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}