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**Chris** · 02-06-2015, 12:02

Well, governments will insist on using tax as a means of incentivising or disincentivising certain behaviours. If they would simply collect a proportion of wealth generated in order to fund essential state services, life would be much easier. But they don't, and a lot of HMRC's time is spent deliberating whether someone is behaving as the system encourages them to, or if they are hiding their tax liability and should therefore be pursued.

As usual where the Internets are concerned, a lot of people seem to think they are entitled to something for nothing, whereas money earned by an online business is just as taxable as money earned by a high street shop.

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Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,414	Re: HMRC targets Etsy, eBay and Gumtree sellers Well, governments will insist on using tax as a means of incentivising or disincentivising certain behaviours. If they would simply collect a proportion of wealth generated in order to fund essential state services, life would be much easier. But they don't, and a lot of HMRC's time is spent deliberating whether someone is behaving as the system encourages them to, or if they are hiding their tax liability and should therefore be pursued. As usual where the Internets are concerned, a lot of people seem to think they are entitled to something for nothing, whereas money earned by an online business is just as taxable as money earned by a high street shop.