{"id":58891,"date":"2015-07-08T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=2ef806121a06f2c8da604cfad597af54"},"modified":"2015-07-08T14:37:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T14:37:00","slug":"michelangelo-osbornes-summer-budget-sparks-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=58891","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMichelangelo\u201d Osborne\u2019s summer Budget sparks optimism"},"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>The first wholly Conservative Budget in almost 19 years sparked largely optimistic reactions from tax experts today, with George Osborne\u2019s plans described as \u201centirely sensible\u201d, \u201cpleasing\u201d, and akin to the work of one of history\u2019s greatest artists.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe chancellor resembled Michelangelo as he re-sculpted the UK tax system, taxing dividends, proposing changes to pensions, adding a new tax on banks, cutting corporate tax rates, and restricting interest relief on buy-to-let investments,\u201d said EY\u2019s head of tax policy, Chris Sanger.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>He praised Osborne for going \u201cwell beyond what many expected\u201d and for emulating former Tory chancellor Nigel Lawson&amp;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The first wholly Conservative Budget in almost 19 years sparked largely optimistic reactions from tax experts today, with George Osborne&rsquo;s plans described as &ldquo;entirely sensible&rdquo;, &ldquo;pleasing&rdquo;, and akin to the work of one of history&rsquo;s greatest artists.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The chancellor resembled Michelangelo as he re-sculpted the UK tax system, taxing dividends, proposing changes to pensions, adding a new tax on banks, cutting corporate tax rates, and restricting interest relief on buy-to-let investments,&rdquo; said EY&rsquo;s head of tax policy, Chris Sanger.<\/p>\n<p>He praised Osborne for going &ldquo;well beyond what many expected&rdquo; and for emulating former Tory chancellor Nigel Lawson&amp;&#8230;<\/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\/58891"}],"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=58891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}