{"id":35549,"date":"2012-11-08T01:56:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T01:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/hollande_raises_french_sales_tax_signaling_economic_shift\/"},"modified":"2012-11-08T01:56:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T01:56:57","slug":"hollande_raises_french_sales_tax_signaling_economic_shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35549","title":{"rendered":"Hollande Raises French Sales Tax, Signaling Economic Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France\u2019s main sales-tax rate will increase in January 2014 to 20 percent from 19.6 percent, while the second band on home renovations and restaurants will rise to 10 percent from 7 percent currently. A third rate that applies to food and energy will be cut to 5 percent from 5.5 percent in an effort to support the spending power of France\u2019s poorest households, French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2012-11-06\/hollande-to-raise-french-sales-tax-cut-spending-from-2014\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France\u2019s main sales-tax rate will increase in January 2014 to 20 percent from 19.6 percent, while the second band on home renovations and restaurants will rise to 10 percent from 7 percent currently. A third rate that applies to food<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35549\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,149,200,468,587],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-economy","category-europe","category-france","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}