{"id":7807,"date":"2014-06-08T18:33:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T17:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=7807"},"modified":"2014-06-08T18:33:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T17:33:42","slug":"ihbcs-new-research-note-on-vat-heritage-a-soft-launch-on-the-qt-at-the-2014-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=7807","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s new Research Note – on VAT & heritage – a soft launch on the \u2018QT\u2019 at the 2014 School!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Delegates to the IHBC\u2019s 2014 School in Edinburgh were treated to a \u2018soft\u2019 launch of the first of the institute\u2019s new Research Notes resource, on \u2018Policy regarding VAT and historic buildings\u2019, prepared by IHBC\u2019s research notes consultant editor and lead author, Bob Kindred MBE, a publication complementing the IHBC\u2019s partnerships with mainstream development interests in developing VAT reduction advocacy under the Cut the VAT campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n

IHBC President Trefor Thorpe said: ‘This is an excellent review of and aide-memoire<\/em> summarizing the entire background and current state of VAT insofar as it affects the historic environment.\u00a0 It will be essential reading for every conservation professional and, indeed, should also be that for every politician.<\/p>\n

\u2018It’s vital that this sort of sound, logical, and well-presented pressure is applied and the screw progressively tightened if the Government and the Treasury are to be persuaded to rethink fiscal policy in this area’.<\/p>\n

Bob Kindred said: \u2018At times such as these, when resources to care for our precious legacy of built heritage have never been so scarce, resolving the VAT issue in favour of historic buildings becomes ever more important\u00a0 \u2013 offering a potential stimulus to the economy as well as a boost to jobs more generally.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018The research shows not only the benefits that would derive from reducing or abolishing VAT, but also the tortuous progress and unreasonableness of the tax on heritage assets from its inception.\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Download IHBC\u2019s Research Note on Vat and heritage<\/span> HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

For the IHBC\u2019s VAT-related initiatives in 2014 see links from<\/span> HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

For the \u00a0Parliamentary launch of the \u00a0research by IHBC and partners into \u2018VAT relief for housing repairs\u2019 see<\/span> HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Delegates to the IHBC\u2019s 2014 School in Edinburgh were treated to a \u2018soft\u2019 launch of the first of the institute\u2019s new Research Notes resource, on \u2018Policy regarding VAT and historic buildings\u2019, prepared by IHBC\u2019s research notes consultant editor and lead … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7808,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7807\/revisions\/7808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}