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Re: Osborne advised using financial loopholes to avoid tax and care costs.
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But Mr Balls’s bigger issue comes with his day job, Shadow Chancellor.
On Sunday, when asked by Andrew Marr what constituted tax avoidance, he said: “If you are having somebody cut your hedge for a tenner make sure they give you their name, address and a receipt.”
He really said that? Yep. Then 48 hours later what do you think happened? The little firm that has cleaned his windows at his family home in Castleford, West Yorkshire, revealed that in 17 — yes 17 — years he has never asked for a receipt.
Helpfully, the window cleaner reveals that it takes him ten minutes to do the windows for £12 and then he pops a note through the letterbox, saying: “Your windows have been cleaned.”
So he is just like the rest of us paying the handyman in cash, and as 99 per cent aren’t VAT-registered (you need a minimum turnover of £81k) they don’t have to be.
By not telling the truth he emerges as just another hypocritical politician.
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Paywall link Kelvin MacKenzie
Seems they're all in it together. 
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