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Originally Posted by Osem
You're not serious are you? I take it you also believe the police should leave muggers and burglars alone in order to concentrate all their efforts on bigger fish eh...
HMG, HMRC and rafts of lawyers have been working very hard to deal with evasion and aggressive avoidance. That's not to say that more can't/shouldn't/won't be done and indeed HMRC has only just announced they're effectively giving up on fines for late returns etc. to concentrate on more important matters. Odd that, when they're only interested in chasing the little guys according to you.
Many large and aggressive avoidance schemes have been closed down and £billions of tax reclaimed so to claim they're doing very little is nonsense. The truth is, however, that by the nature of these complex schemes and companies which base their affairs offshore, for example, is that the rules are incredibly complex and it's extremely difficult to do anything about them without international agreements.
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They made one successful prosecution in the last parliamentary term. If that's not a fairly nailed on description of the term 'very little' then I'm unsure what is.
So the rules are complex and difficult? Well, change them then? The ones that can be changed that is. (I think this is starting to be done now but it shouldn't have taken as long as it has)
So the late tax fines are scrapped, well whoop dee
Mod Edit,please don't swear do Basil. I'm sure that will be of significant value to people as they find the wages aren't meeting their ever expanding costs.
And to be honest, if the police said I'm sorry sir we don't have the resources to investigate the fact you were burgled as we're concentrating on a major murder enquiry I'd be cross as hell but it's understandable.
The very simple fact of this whole entire argument is unfortunately that regardless of which bunch of misfits hold power, they will always serve the needs of big business first rather than the people who entrusted them into office.