{"id":50609,"date":"2014-11-24T08:42:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T08:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=74cab56034d66f7d045433e5c5166211"},"modified":"2014-11-24T08:42:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T08:42:44","slug":"cheers-as-government-waters-down-drd-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=50609","title":{"rendered":"Cheers as government dilutes DRD plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\">\n<p>Tax experts have applauded the government\u2019s decision to water down controversial plans to give HMRC extra tax debt-collection powers.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Extra safeguards and additional time for consultation on direct recovery of debts (DRD) mean the measure will be delayed until after next year\u2019s general election.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>DRD has been the cause of outrage <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxation.co.uk\/taxation\/Articles\/2014\/05\/27\/325571\/just-say-no\" >since it was unveiled in May<\/a><\/strong> to give Revenue officials access to taxpayers\u2019 bank accounts. <em>Taxation\u2019s<\/em> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxation.co.uk\/taxation\/Articles\/2014\/08\/05\/328841\/power-too-far\" >campaign against the proposal<\/a><\/strong> earned media coverage for its <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/epetitions.direct.gov.uk\/petitions\/68384\" >petition<\/a><\/strong>, which had garnered 4,623 names at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Paul Aplin of AC Mole &amp; Son <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxation.co.uk\/taxation\/Articles\/2014\/07\/22\/328201\/chorus-disapproval\" >opened<em> Taxation\u2019&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Tax experts have applauded the government&rsquo;s decision to water down controversial plans to give HMRC extra tax debt-collection powers.<\/p>\n<p>Extra safeguards and additional time for consultation on direct recovery of debts (DRD) mean the measure will be delayed until after next year&rsquo;s general election.<\/p>\n<p>DRD has been the cause of outrage <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxation.co.uk\/taxation\/Articles\/2014\/05\/27\/325571\/just-say-no\" target=\"_blank\">since it was unveiled in May<\/a><\/strong> to give Revenue officials access to taxpayers&rsquo; bank accounts. <em>Taxation&rsquo;s<\/em> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxation.co.uk\/taxation\/Articles\/2014\/08\/05\/328841\/power-too-far\" target=\"_blank\">campaign against the proposal<\/a><\/strong> earned media coverage for its <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/epetitions.direct.gov.uk\/petitions\/68384\" target=\"_blank\">petition<\/a><\/strong>, which had garnered 4,623 names at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Aplin of AC Mole &amp; Son <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxation.co.uk\/taxation\/Articles\/2014\/07\/22\/328201\/chorus-disapproval\" target=\"_blank\">opened<em> Taxation&rsquo;&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50648,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50609\/revisions\/50648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}