{"id":9554,"date":"2015-02-13T17:31:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T17:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=9554"},"modified":"2015-02-13T17:31:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T17:31:15","slug":"cut-vat-on-refurb-urges-london-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9554","title":{"rendered":"Cut VAT on refurb, urges London Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Value added tax on refurbishments should be cut to discourage inappropriate council estate demolitions, the London Assembly has said in a report on estate regeneration schemes, Knock It Down or Do It Up?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The report said estates were being demolished and redeveloped by London boroughs for tax reasons rather than because this was either technically essential or in line with residents\u2019 wishes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.building.co.uk\/news\/cut-vat-on-refurb-urges-london-assembly\/5073757.article\" target=\"_blank\">Building Co UK aticle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Value added tax on refurbishments should be cut to discourage inappropriate council estate demolitions, the London Assembly has said in a report on estate regeneration schemes, Knock It Down or Do It Up? The report said estates were being demolished &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9554\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554","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=9554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9555,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554\/revisions\/9555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}