{"id":165807,"date":"2020-10-24T03:47:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T01:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/10\/24\/coronavirus-uk-cost-of-face-masks-to-rise-by-a-fifth-as-treasury-refuses-to-extend-vat-holiday\/"},"modified":"2020-10-24T03:47:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T01:47:42","slug":"coronavirus-uk-cost-of-face-masks-to-rise-by-a-fifth-as-treasury-refuses-to-extend-vat-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=165807","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus UK: Cost of face masks to rise by a fifth as Treasury refuses to extend VAT holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury officials have told retailers the six-month VAT holiday on PPE including face masks would come to an end on October 31 after waiving the 20 per cent UK tax in May.<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8873559\/UK-Government-blasted-refusing-extend-VAT-freeze-medical-PPE.html?ns_mchannel=rss&#038;ito=1490&#038;ns_campaign=1490\" target=\"_blank\">Coronavirus UK: Cost of face masks to rise by a fifth as Treasury refuses to extend VAT holiday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury officials have told retailers the six-month VAT holiday on PPE including face masks would come to an end on October 31 after waiving the 20 per cent UK tax in May. Via: Coronavirus UK: Cost of face masks to rise by a fifth as Treasury refuses to extend VAT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}