There's a good article under the above title in the Telegraph today, and not just because I'm quoted.
As they say:
Tax collectors, according to more than one person interviewed for this article, are heroes. After all, the people they are targeting — tax avoiders (people who legally exploit loopholes) and tax evaders (those who commit tax fraud) – are not exactly popular in the current climate, when the majority of the population is having to endure tax rises and wage freezes to help the country balance its books.
And I agree.
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Quite.
Since all politicians are fiddlers, and all their mates as well, I see little hope of an assault on the bastions of gross-fiddlers any time soon.
Probably they’ll have an assault on child-tax-credit fiddlers and working-tax-credit fiddlers. And that hoary old last resort…..the construction industry.
Meanwhile, back in Barclays 800 tax-haven companies…..[/sarc]
When approaching the subject of tax dodging all roads lead to the City.
And leading in and out of the City is a network of intricate pathways connecting the City’s to its tax haven satellites — not forgetting the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey — that provide the technical expertise and financial vehicles to facilitate tax dodging on a gargantuan scale.
Rather than infiltrating the almost impenetrable labyrinth of the City and its medieval power house of vested interest HMRC would be more effective by cutting off the oxygen that supplies it.
Close the tax havens,
This is all a bit chicken before the egg. Until the UK taxlegislation is properly reviewed and rewriiten into manageable and clear legislation the percieved taxpayer-collector conflict will persist.
Wait for my next book then….