{"id":941489,"date":"2023-01-01T16:25:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T16:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/?p=357475"},"modified":"2023-01-01T16:25:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T16:25:21","slug":"dubai-scraps-30-per-cent-tax-on-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/01\/01\/dubai-scraps-30-per-cent-tax-on-alcohol\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai scraps 30 per cent tax on alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/4ba7c946-f23e-47c1-b64b-abf7462247db.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/4ba7c946-f23e-47c1-b64b-abf7462247db.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/4ba7c946-f23e-47c1-b64b-abf7462247db-980x551.jpg 980w, https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/4ba7c946-f23e-47c1-b64b-abf7462247db-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1280px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>Dubai has ended its 30 per cent tax on alcohol sales in the sheikhdom and made its required liquor licences free to obtain, ending a long-standing source of revenue for its ruling family to apparently further boost tourism to the emirate. The sudden New Year&#8217;s Day announcement, made by Dubai&#8217;s two state-linked alcohol retailers, came [&#8230;]\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/dubai-scraps-30-per-cent-tax-on-alcohol\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai has ended its 30 per cent tax on alcohol sales in the sheikhdom and made its required liquor licences free to obtain, ending a long-standing source of revenue for its ruling family to apparently further boost tourism to the emirate. The sudden Ne&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942186,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941489\/revisions\/942186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}