{"id":7677,"date":"2022-11-04T08:37:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T07:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/taxi-fares-outside-london-could-rise-by-a-fifth-if-uber-wins-court-case\/"},"modified":"2022-11-04T08:37:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T07:37:47","slug":"taxi-fares-outside-london-could-rise-by-a-fifth-if-uber-wins-court-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/taxi-fares-outside-london-could-rise-by-a-fifth-if-uber-wins-court-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi fares outside London could rise by a fifth if Uber wins court case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ride-sharing company is attempting to force taxi firms to  pay VAT on journeys<\/p>\n<p>Taxi firms outside London could be forced to hike their prices by a fifth if Uber wins a high court battle this week that would mean they pay VAT on journeys.<\/p>\n<p>A ruling is expected to be handed down on Friday after the ride-sharing app sued Sefton council in Merseyside over VAT terms for operators outside London.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/03\/uber-high-court-battle-force-uk-private-hire-operator-outside-london-pay-vat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/317790170a584480cd7a99b42c9e6a1b77c0a8ab\/0_0_6773_4064\/master\/6773.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=76d95b9925d3c0966ec164e87754377e\" title=\"Taxi fares outside London could rise by a fifth if Uber wins court case\" \/>Ride-sharing company is attempting to force taxi firms to  pay VAT on journeys<br \/>\nTaxi firms outside London could be forced to hike their prices by a fifth if Uber wins a high court battle this week that would mean they pay VAT on journeys.<br \/>\nA ruling is expected to be handed down on Friday after the ride-sharing app sued Sefton council in Merseyside over VAT terms for operators outside London. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ride-sharing company is attempting to force taxi firms to pay VAT on journeys Taxi firms outside London could be forced to hike their prices by a fifth if Uber wins a high court battle this week that would mean they pay VAT on journeys. A ruling is expected to be handed down on Friday after &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/taxi-fares-outside-london-could-rise-by-a-fifth-if-uber-wins-court-case\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taxi fares outside London could rise by a fifth if Uber wins court case<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7678,"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\/7677"}],"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=7677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}