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Originally Posted by Stuart
Another way of looking at it is that Government is repeatedly introducing cuts that penalise those who are at the bottom end of the pay scale while seemingly ignoring the measures taken by those at the top end of the pay scale to minimise the amount of tax paid (and I am talking about both individuals and companies). Tax which can amount to 100s of millions of pounds.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20559791
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An HMRC spokesman said: "We relentlessly challenge those that persist in avoiding tax and have recovered £29bn additional revenues from large businesses in the last six years, including £4.1bn in the last four years from transfer pricing enquiries alone."
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http://www.fda.org.uk/Media/Whats-ne...tra-3.7bn.aspx
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"HMRC is on track to deliver an additional £7 billion in tax receipts each year to 2015 as part of the Coalition's £917 million "reinvestment" programme"
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It might seem like that to some but I'm not sure these figures amount to ignoring the problem. Although there's no doubt more could be done, it has to be done within the law and legal challenges can take a very long time to resolve in matters as complex as these.