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Originally Posted by Damien
Jimmy Carr's tax arrangements are morally wrong. There is something to be paid for being sensible and using the tax system to ensure you don't overpay tax, so you abide by the sprit of the regulations and ensure you're accidentally getting taxed twice or getting taxed on items that were not meant to be considered.
However it's something else entirely when you use loopholes that are only there because it's something the Inland Revenue hadn't yet considered, like a hacker exploiting a series of software bugs to break a system. When you pay a fraction of the relative tax rate that everyone else pays then that is morally wrong. You can't justify that imo, it's not being overtaxed, it's paying hardly any tax. When Carr says he pays the tax he is meant to pay and not a fraction more he is wrong. He is not paying what he is meant to pay, he is abusing the system as close as he gain without getting throw in jail to ensure he doesn't pay anywhere near what he is meant to pay.
That Cameron's father was also morally wrong doesn't detract any responsibility from Jimmy Carr.
Society should make these kinds of actions shameful and unacceptable. I can't stand the defence that a lot of his fans are offering that 'he hasn't done anything illegal'. Is this really is how little we've come to expect of each other? The standard to aim for in a person is not to break the law?
/rant.
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Quite agree imo there's no difference between Carr and a benefit cheat.