{"id":18152,"date":"2010-10-06T07:07:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T11:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=18152"},"modified":"2010-10-06T07:07:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T11:07:36","slug":"liberal-democrats-call-for-draconian-tax-on-bank-bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2010\/liberal-democrats-call-for-draconian-tax-on-bank-bonuses.html","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Democrats call for draconian tax on bank bonuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; A new, more draconian tax on bonuses should be slapped on banks, a leading Liberal Democrat said tonight after the Royal Bank of Scotland chairman admitted that\u00a0regulation was the only way to restrain the annual bonanza for bankers.<\/p>\n<p>Amid estimates that the City would pay out \u00a37bn in bonuses this year, Lord Oakeshott said the moment had now come to reintroduce a tax on bonuses which, when imposed on the banks last year, brought in \u00a33.5bn for the exchequer.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2010\/oct\/05\/lib-dem-oakeshott-tax-bank-bonuses?CMP=EMCGT_061010&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; A new, more draconian tax on bonuses should be slapped on banks, a leading Liberal Democrat said tonight after the Royal Bank of Scotland chairman admitted that\u00a0regulation was the only way to restrain the annual bonanza for bankers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18153,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18152\/revisions\/18153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}