{"id":305852,"date":"2025-07-31T05:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305852\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T05:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:57:14","slug":"campaigners-outraged-over-stormont-rates-relief-for-firms-profiting-from-rampant-destruction-of-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305852\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaigners \u2018outraged\u2019 over Stormont rates relief for firms profiting from \u2018rampant destruction\u2019 of Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Caterpillar machinery being used by Israeli forces in Gaza\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1_call_to_boycott_C.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Caterpillar machinery being used by Israeli forces in Gaza<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Campaigners have called on Stormont\u2019s Finance Minister to review his department\u2019s industrial derating policy and end benefits for major companies, including those profiting from the \u201cdestruction\u201d of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Industrial derating, in the context of business rates in Northern Ireland, refers to a 70% reduction to the normal rate for properties used for manufacturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caterpillar machinery being used by Israeli forces in Gaza Campaigners have called on Stormont\u2019s Finance Minister to review&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[837,1144,1814,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-305852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-israel","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-palestine","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114946313029256578","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}