{"id":65395,"date":"2015-12-14T09:53:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T09:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6f12e237a6d78c5cfd542f44d38561fc"},"modified":"2015-12-14T09:53:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T09:53:50","slug":"news-story-government-to-donate-vat-on-x-factor-charity-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=65395","title":{"rendered":"News story: Government to donate VAT on X Factor charity single"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has announced that the government will donate VAT on sales of the X Factor winner\u2019s charity single.<\/p>\n<p>Profits from sales of the single will be donated to two children\u2019s charities, Together for Short Lives and Shooting Star Chase. <\/p>\n<p>In recognition of the support both charities provide through their work with children with life-limiting illnesses and the wide-ranging support given to their families, the government will make a charitable donation to the charities, equivalent to the VAT payable on the sales of the single.<\/p>\n<p>The government has previously waived the VAT on the Save the Children single, Band Aid Ebola single, 2011\u2019s Military Wives Choir single, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake appeal single.<\/p>\n<p>George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It is great news that Together for Short Lives and Shooting Star Chase Children\u2019s Hospice are to benefit from the proceeds of this year\u2019s X Factor winner\u2019s single.<\/p>\n<p>I am a great admirer of the tremendous work that these charities do to support children with life-threatening and life-limiting medical conditions, and those who love and care for them.<\/p>\n<p>I am very happy to announce that the government will refund all VAT on sales of the single.<\/p>\n<p>I urge people go out and buy it in great numbers this Christmas so that as much money as possible is raised to support the charities\u2019 work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I hope it will help those families who are going through unimaginably difficult times, at a time of year that must be particularly difficult for them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Profits from sales of the single will be donated to two children\u2019s charities, Together for Short Lives and Shooting Star Chase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65395"}],"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=65395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}