You don't have to be a Liberal Democrat to appreciate that Vince Cable is head and shoulders above the crowd in Parliament on economic and tax issues. Yesterday he said:
It [is] not possible to have a sense of society when hard-working families and pensioners pay through the nose while others don't pay their share and dodge taxes through tax havens or tax avoidance scams.
He's right.
This is the morality of tax.
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Richard,
There is no moral obligation to pay tax, only a legal one. For those barking that taxes are a moral obligation they are welcome to pay more than they legally owe.
I wonder how many of the “tax moralists” do so……
Just for once I let one of your posts on
Your comment is so obviously fatuous it is worth posting it
You presume there is a simple answer to the amount of tax due
There isn’t
Decisions are required to reach a position where the amount of tax paid can be calculated
Those decisions are ethically formed
That’s not a decision to pay more tax. It’s a decision to avoid an unethical action to reduce a tax bill
Deny there are such decisions and you show the absurdity of your position since it is logically impossible to maintain your argument