Osborne needs to hang his head in shame for the help he’s giving to tax evaders

Posted on

My Tax Justice Network colleague has a typically thoughtful and measured article in the Guardian this morning discussing how we tackle tax havens.

Having considered many of the available options he turns to the UK - Swiss tax deal that comes into force next year, concluding:

Chancellor George Osborne in his budget speech in April described tax evasion and avoidance as "morally repugnant". But his tax deal with Switzerland, as a fiscally useless spoiler, is a tax evader's dream. This government must repudiate it immediately. If it doesn't, Labour must commit to abolishing it — or hang its own head in shame.

I have to say he's right. Read the whole thing to see why.


Thanks for reading this post.
You can share this post on social media of your choice by clicking these icons:

You can subscribe to this blog's daily email here.

And if you would like to support this blog you can, here: