The Taxpayer's Alliance and IoD's new report on tax is amazing in many ways - mostly for the obvious abuses it wants to promote in society. Take this example, of obvious interest to me:
So le's ignore the tax evasion and the crime and instead say these are moral places.
Why are they moral? Because they subvert the will of democratially elected governemtns to impose taxes their people ask for. That's why they're moral.
This is the perverted and fundamentally anti-democratic morality of the far right in action.
And that's what this report is about - ignoring the wishes of people and imposing the wishes of the minority - even if, and maybe especially if, it helps money launderers and tax evaders.
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You have mentioned that tax avoidance undermines Democracy and therefore places it at risk several times recently, the idea being that Government states its aims and that by thwarting those aims and reducing tax received people place Democracy in danger….
How does this apply to when the Government decides to lower public sector pensions or change the NHS? Surely anyone who opposes, protests or distorts these aims are also undermining Democracy and placing it at risk?
Surely it is hypocrisy to say that Government decisions on tax are sacrosant but other decisions that also involve billions are fair game to avoid, distort or protest?
The right to oppose is inherent within democracy
The right to undermine is akin to warfare
Before Reg Jeune and the rest of that dishonourable shower turned Jersey into a tax haven, we had tourism… and potatoes… and tomatoes… and the cows (some people made good money exporting them).
It didn’t make us enormously wealthy, but talking about Jersey as a “barren rock” in those days is a gross misrepresentation.
TPA – you lie.