{"id":158927,"date":"2017-04-04T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/hong-kong-closed-a-tax-loophole-is-tesla-ancillary-damage\/"},"modified":"2017-04-04T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T11:00:00","slug":"hong-kong-closed-a-tax-loophole-is-tesla-ancillary-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/hong-kong-closed-a-tax-loophole-is-tesla-ancillary-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong closed a tax loophole; is Tesla ancillary damage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1109710_hong-kong-closed-a-tax-loophole-is-tesla-ancillary-damage\">feedback@highgearmedia.com (John Voelcker)<\/a><\/span>  Government officials in Hong Kong have eliminated a popular tax exemption that made electric vehicles much cheaper to buy than comparable gasoline-powered models. Now Tesla worries it could take the brunt of the blowback. The loophole helped make Hong Kong one of the biggest overseas markets for the Silicon Valley carmaker&#8217;s luxury electric cars&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1109710_hong-kong-closed-a-tax-loophole-is-tesla-ancillary-damage\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Via:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1109710_hong-kong-closed-a-tax-loophole-is-tesla-ancillary-damage\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Hong Kong closed a tax loophole; is Tesla ancillary damage?\">http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1109710_hong-kong-closed-a-tax-loophole-is-tesla-ancillary-damage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government officials in Hong Kong have eliminated a popular tax exemption that made electric vehicles much cheaper to buy than comparable gasoline-powered models. Now Tesla worries it could take the brunt of the blowback. The loophole helped make Hong Kong one of the biggest overseas markets for the Silicon Valley carmaker&#8217;s luxury electric cars&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1109710_hong-kong-closed-a-tax-loophole-is-tesla-ancillary-damage\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greencarreports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}