{"id":2183,"date":"2010-01-27T19:20:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T03:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2010-01-27T19:21:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T03:21:38","slug":"uk-tax-service-dont-you-dare-reduce-those-bankers-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/uk-tax-service-dont-you-dare-reduce-those-bankers-salaries\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. government:  Don&#8217;t you dare reduce those banker&#8217;s salaries!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or else we&#8217;ll tax &#8217;em!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>British officials have blessed the shift to higher salaries, saying they help rein in risky decision-making. But the salary increases must be permanent, or they will be taxed like a bonus. &#8220;A significant, one-off leap in salary is something we&#8217;ll be keeping an eye on,&#8221; says Paul Franklin, a spokesman for the U.K.&#8217;s tax service. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Their concern about bankers salaries is kind of touching, don&#8217;t you think.\u00a0 It contrasts to the obsession in the rest of <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703410004575029492850027672.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wsj%2Fxml%2Frss%2F3_7011+%28WSJ.com%3A+What%27s+News+US%29\">this article<\/a> about how banks keep trying to get more money into the pockets of their employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or else we&#8217;ll tax &#8217;em! British officials have blessed the shift to higher salaries, saying they help rein in risky decision-making. But the salary increases must be permanent, or they will be taxed like a bonus. &#8220;A significant, one-off leap in salary is something we&#8217;ll be keeping an eye on,&#8221; says Paul Franklin, a spokesman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-executive-compensation","category-reporting-on-pay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2185,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions\/2185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}