{"id":5021,"date":"2022-03-12T09:40:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T08:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/12\/uber-fares-to-rise-in-uk-as-20-vat-rate-is-applied\/"},"modified":"2022-03-12T09:40:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T08:40:18","slug":"uber-fares-to-rise-in-uk-as-20-vat-rate-is-applied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/12\/uber-fares-to-rise-in-uk-as-20-vat-rate-is-applied\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber fares to rise in UK as 20% VAT rate is applied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Change comes after high court ruling that Uber should be regarded as a contractor, not an agent<\/p>\n<p>Uber fares across the UK are to rise sharply from Monday night when VAT of 20% will be applied to rides booked via the app.<\/p>\n<p>The change comes after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/dec\/06\/uber-must-overhaul-london-business-model-after-high-court-ruling\">high court ruling last December<\/a> that Uber could not be viewed as simply an agent but should be regarded as the contractor.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/mar\/11\/uber-fares-to-rise-by-20-across-uk-as-vat-is-applied\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1344a627b01c8595cf4d00553d24f30a658f9909\/0_193_4000_2401\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c7b0d05adecc9b0786e98452a1437701\" title=\"Uber fares to rise in UK as 20% VAT rate is applied\" \/>Change comes after high court ruling that Uber should be regarded as a contractor, not an agent<br \/>\nUber fares across the UK are to rise sharply from Monday night when VAT of 20% will be applied to rides booked via the app.<br \/>\nThe change comes after a high court ruling last December that Uber could not be viewed as simply an agent but should be regarded as the contractor. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change comes after high court ruling that Uber should be regarded as a contractor, not an agent Uber fares across the UK are to rise sharply from Monday night when VAT of 20% will be applied to rides booked via the app. The change comes after a high court ruling last December that Uber could &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/12\/uber-fares-to-rise-in-uk-as-20-vat-rate-is-applied\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uber fares to rise in UK as 20% VAT rate is applied<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}