{"id":2609,"date":"2006-11-01T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2006-11-01T06:59:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T10:59:00","slug":"flight-of-the-dubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/11\/01\/06\/59\/flight-of-the-dubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight of the Dubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2152580\/?nav=tap3\">U2 [is] to relocate its music-publishing business from Ireland to the Netherlands in order to shelter its songwriting royalties from taxation &#8230; Ireland&#8217;s finance minister announced a ceiling of $319,000 on tax-free incomes, and six months after that, U2 opened its Amsterdam office. The relocation of U2&#8217;s music publishing will halve taxes on the band&#8217;s songwriting royalties, which already reportedly total $286 million. Although Bono has declined to comment on the move, the band&#8217;s lead guitarist, David &#8220;the Edge&#8221; Evans, said, &#8220;Of course we&#8217;re trying to be tax-efficient. Who doesn&#8217;t want to be tax-efficient?'&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U2 [is] to relocate its music-publishing business from Ireland to the Netherlands in order to shelter its songwriting royalties from taxation &#8230; Ireland&#8217;s finance minister announced a ceiling of $319,000 on tax-free incomes, and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}