On the subject of tax and Bono, I mostly agree with what you say. I want to point out in his defence that large numbers of people do not believe that every part of a government’s money is put most efficiently to a good purpose.
This does not absolve them from paying tax and some do good work with their spare money (even though they do a lot of damage with their excess consumption). But as you imply on your main website it is quite abhorrent that the most wealthy pay very little tax and that accountants turn a blind eye in many cases.
There is not even a sliding scale that says that those super-rich will pay a slightly greater proportion as they earn more after the middle incomes. And if they run a company many of their expenses are offsettable, so they even get their VAT returned.

This is why I believe that we have to look not just at tax reform for private equities etc but at the structure of both money creation and of trade in favour of a point of sale tax which is harder to avoid and hypothecated to protect the global ecology etc (see the website).

This will pay security dividends for the wealthy.

We have spoken about this before and the ETI proposal available on http://www.STEERglobal.org has gone a long way, but requires more heavyweight support to finally begin to be implemented to help level the field and a bit in favour of the remaining industry in consumer nations. This needs to be done because needless relocation is hardly efficient either of resources or wrt government having to pick up the pieces in the community.

Sometimes relocation is only done in search of quick profit and could be much better managed if thought of a a global level. Simple-minded versions of economics (sophiscated only in their complexity to avoid transparency) incorporating little or no real ethics or transparency and inadequate justice in the way finance and banking both work is, as we have seen a recipe for runaway capitalism with global consequences as we almost have now. The insecurity referred to in another section of your website is entirely relevant here. Can I conclude with a call for unity of purpose of NGOs and all those with a right-minded attitude in turning the global situation around. Britain could be the leaders in this field, instead of lagging (as was recently shown in research about happiness, wellbeing and child health. (Children should be educated close to home and families should not have both partners forced to work to pay off big loans so they would help with the process). All this is relevant to the tax system and in improving economic and social efficiency.

regards, Ian

A general anti-avoidance provision could stop a lot of this

Otherwise the law is doomed to lag behind

Richard