Not as bad as these lot tho..
Is that a bunch of Cabinet Ministers you chose?
How many of them were Chancellor of the Exchequeur?
Not as bad as these lot tho..
The great thing about being a Tory lawmaker in power, with a large majority, is that you can make the laws to suit.Is that a bunch of Cabinet Ministers you chose?
How many of them were Chancellor of the Exchequeur?
I haven't checked the list, but I know of a couple. Are they all Labour ?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.
...or just try and dodge Parliamentary scrutiny.The great thing about being a Tory lawmaker in power, with a large majority, is that you can make the laws to suit.
5 MILLION quid! Zahawi should be in prison.Unending Tory sleaze.
He's not white and he's successful, that's more than enough for some. Jews are successful, the left hate them too.What criminal offence has he committed?
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’m not defending him and certainly not accusing him of deception, just making a wider point regarding reform of anti avoidance legislation.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.
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 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..
Which bit don't you understand?You could treat all income as income when calculating income tax.