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The goblins in Brussels have decreed that drugs and prostitution make a positive contribution to a country’s economy. In a move that will make the Albanians very very angry, all centres of vice and crack houses are to be vaulted into the top tax bracket and visited by men from the tax authorities, who will besides taking large bribes, be conducting quality control checks by sampling the goods to make sure the trade descriptions act is also not being broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The goblins in Brussels have decreed that drugs and prostitution make a positive contribution to a country’s economy. In a move that will make the Albanians very very angry, all centres of vice and crack houses are to be vaulted … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-ty","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":997,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/12\/starbucks-to-pay-tax-on-losses-in-uk\/","url_meta":{"origin":1832,"position":0},"title":"Starbucks to pay tax on losses in uk","author":"taxicle","date":"December 6, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Makes perfect sense that Starbucks should pay tax on losses after years of not paying tax on any profits. The amount though - \u00a310m - seems to be a bit arbitrary, in the manner of someone walking down the street who looks for some reasonable amount to give to charity.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1292,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2013\/03\/smiths-tax-take-increase-principle\/","url_meta":{"origin":1832,"position":1},"title":"Smiths Tax Take Increase Principle","author":"taxicle","date":"March 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Why does the day on which self employed people in the UK must pay their taxes fall just after Xmas when all their money has been spent and they have spent two week earning nothing? They must be extremely tempted to say, 'no taxes to pay this year', and leave\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":606,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/07\/mywhole-life-is-now-just-a-set-of-accounts\/","url_meta":{"origin":1832,"position":2},"title":"My Whole Life is Now Just a Set of Accounts","author":"taxicle","date":"July 7, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I just registered as a a private limited company, and my whole life and associated excpenses is, in part at least, tax deductible. I can't help thinking that this is exactly the sort of accounting fiction that can change liabilities without any change in lives that has got us all\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions\/1833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}