{"id":2094,"date":"2009-12-14T20:15:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T20:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/financial-brain-drain\/"},"modified":"2009-12-14T20:15:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T20:15:12","slug":"financial-brain-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/financial-brain-drain.php","title":{"rendered":"Financial Brain Drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Britain&rsquo;s financiers and entrepreneurs are quitting the UK at a rate of 10 a week to avoid Labour&rsquo;s new 50% taxes.<\/p><p>The burgeoning exodus threatens to deepen a &pound;178 billion black hole in the public finances and leave middle-class voters with higher taxes for years to come, figures obtained from Companies House reveal.<\/p><p>The number of directors of British businesses registered as living in the low-tax centres of Jersey, Guernsey or the Isle of Man has risen by almost 500 to 6,729 in the past 12 months.<\/p><p>The British Virgin Islands is also a popular destination, with 615 directors of UK companies now based in the Caribbean tax haven &mdash; an 18% rise on a year ago.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Utterly predictable.&nbsp; But at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/politics\/article6954613.ece\">Jersey is prospering<\/a>.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/491a6_6379328854053402400-6670666144541519380?l=jeffreymiron.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&rsquo;s financiers and entrepreneurs are quitting the UK at a rate of 10 a week to avoid Labour&rsquo;s new 50% taxes.The burgeoning exodus threatens to deepen a &pound;178 billion black hole in the public finances and leave middle-class voters with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/financial-brain-drain.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarianism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}