Nadhim Zahawi?

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Is that a bunch of Cabinet Ministers you chose?

How many of them were Chancellor of the Exchequeur?
The great thing about being a Tory lawmaker in power, with a large majority, is that you can make the laws to suit.
 
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Not as bad as these lot tho..
David Chayter - jailed for Fraud,
Eric Illsley jailed for False accounting
Denis MacShane - jailed for false accounting
Fiona Onasanya perverting the course of justice
Jim Devine jailed for Fraud,
Elliot Morley jailed for Fraud
and Claudia Webbe suspended sentence for harassment.

Hardly fixed penalties for covid or seatbelt infringements.
I haven't checked the list, but I know of a couple. Are they all Labour ?

Have no conservatives been relevant ?

trying to lessen the issue by proving 2 wrongs make it right ?
 
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This part of the link I poated is of interest. Regs loosened in 2016

Peer-to-peer lenders, like Crowd2Fund, raise money from consumers to lend to businesses through an online exchange. Crowd2Fund was at the forefront of offering what it calls “Innovative Finance ISAs”. Unlike traditional ISAs, crowdfunding investments are not protected if things go wrong.
 
It never made much sense when you consider the fees and the lack of accountability.

It's the booking.com of loans. "we are just the facilitator". Similar returns with bonds and less risk.
 
He did some good work to get the referendum vote but knew his limitations when pitted against the establishment, hence his feathering of his own nest.

I'll come onto the wider point later but, I disagree that "it's very simple" in that:

- you can't define your scope ("offshore trusts and the like")
- you can't define the person(s) concerned (""friends, families, advisers, etc")

In effect, you've just diffidently waved your hand, saying, "that stuff, and those lot".


Back to the wider point, you've missed it.
The offshore trust is not the problem; deliberate deceit is the problem.
The offshore trust was just the vehicle.

Do you think, in your "solution" above, he'd have done any differently?

Deceitful people will find a way to be deceitful, whether that's adopting a labyrinthine financial structure in which to hide impropriety, or exchanging pillowcases stuffed with cash in quiet laybys.

It's what they do.
I’m not defending him and certainly not accusing him of deception, just making a wider point regarding reform of anti avoidance legislation.

Blup
 
You can't have anti avoidance legislation. You create the tax rules, tax experts study them and create strategies. Many tax avoidance strategies are government sponsored. Pension sacrifice, ISAs, enterprise investments, incorporating etc..
 
You can't have anti avoidance legislation. You create the tax rules, tax experts study them and create strategies. Many tax avoidance strategies are government sponsored. Pension sacrifice, ISAs, enterprise investments, incorporating etc..
You could get a job that pays under the tax threshold, thus avoiding tax. It is a form of tax avoidance, people may want rules against that.
 
You could treat all income as income when calculating income tax.
 
You could treat all income as income when calculating income tax.
Which bit don't you understand?

All income is treated as taxable income unless there is a valid tax avoidance scheme in place to ermmm . . . . avoid paying tax on that income.

Which bit don't you understand???
 
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