And Aaronson’s suggestion is a rule so narrowly drawn that it will legitimise most of what the public recognises as avoidance.
“Legitimise”.
Make legal.
Tax avoidance is, already by definition, legal twatface.
Graham Black is president of the Association of Revenue and Customs, part of the senior civil servants union, the FDA
There’s someone who needs to be taught the meaning of the phrase “the rule of law”.
And if he says that the law isn’t what it it is, but what it ought to be, can we then lynch him?
10 responses so far ↓
1 blokeinfrance // Apr 18, 2012 at 9:26 pm
The “rule of law” says you can’t, unfortunately.
There’s no law against dreaming about a very dark night, though…
2 Grumpy Old Man // Apr 18, 2012 at 10:02 pm
Your suggestion could be extended to other self-important mandarins, thereby cutting the Public Sector burden on the tax-payer and sparing them the cost of gold-plated pensions
3 Brian, follower of Deornoth // Apr 18, 2012 at 10:05 pm
Quite. Things are reaching the point where violent resistance to the public sector is justified.
4 outsider // Apr 18, 2012 at 10:15 pm
Wonder if you noticed the first comment on the Guardian article: “Wouldn’t it be better if we took a leaf out of the old Soviet Union’s book. In those days anything that wasn’t specifically allowed by legislation was assumed to be illegal. Wouldn’t that approach stop tax avoidance more effectively?” He was not being ironic.
5 diogenes // Apr 18, 2012 at 10:51 pm
the trouble is that they are Lefties and therefore incapable mof rational thought. They have not spotted tht state expenditure or the cost of the NHS has increased inexorably completely out of synch with the rise of the incomes supposed to pay for all that wastage.
It is getting to the point where I would propose a law that anyone who votes for a statist party should be deported to the Congo or somewhere equivalent for a period of 5 years.
6 Rob // Apr 18, 2012 at 11:48 pm
A drop or two of the old vino?
7 Tim Newman // Apr 19, 2012 at 6:31 am
It is getting to the point where I would propose a law that anyone who votes for a statist party should be deported to the Congo or somewhere equivalent for a period of 5 years.
What have the Congolese ever done to deserve that?!!
8 Dave E // Apr 19, 2012 at 10:19 am
Tim needs to do a Google search for FreeTheBexleyOne to see what happens when you call one of our beloved civil servants a cunt.
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2012/04/15/tweeter-harassed-and-prosecuted-for-swearing/
9 Surreptitious Evil // Apr 19, 2012 at 5:47 pm
Actually, the evil git is a local councillor, not a civil servant. And he wasn’t done for the swearing but the presumed threat.
Now, I can’t understand why publishing a councillor’s address, which is a matter of public record anyway, could be considered threatening. So it must be the incitement to post shite. Or just plain simple authoritarianism.
10 me // Apr 27, 2012 at 10:07 pm
“Tax avoidance is, already by definition, legal twatface”
As I’ve said to you before Worstofall, you twatface, cretin , cunt, arsehole from the South West of England , tax avoidance is onlly legal if it works. What do we do when we find it is illegal?
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