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Originally Posted by denphone
Arthur one suspects there are some politicians from all political parties who are probably not paying their full whack of tax so this is a problem that not just affects the party of government but is across all political divides one suspects and the same sentiment applies to parts of society as well as it ain't just the rich who fiddle their taxes as its also one suspects some people down the lower social ladder as well who fiddle their taxes as well.
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Lots of Self employment tax fiddling happens.
http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/c...case-1-5731343
This guy here was a 'hero' for taxi drivers in the North East. Everyone knew him, just see the only comment on the article. This is only one case, I'm not exaggerating when I say this bloke has helped hundreds of Taxi drives fiddle their books. This incident caused a massive mess for the bloke that had to take over. He actually failed to report any of the discrepancies though and just had people rectify their books rather than bring them up on it. Thus setting the company on the straight but failing to actually report the countless dodgy returns he had in his possession.
Source: Article, Family owned taxi company in Tyne & Wear and actually seen the guy on numerous occasions in his own office in Sunderland regarding his dodgy advice to drivers about Taxi plates from Berwick being cheaper than the ones in Sunderland but somehow valid in Sunderland which continuously caused problems, the guy is a con artist. I've done work for the Bewick guy listed in there too but had no idea he was dodging tax. I knew about the SIA discrepancies though, wouldn't be the first or last. I have plenty of stories about the utter crap that actually went on regarding the 2012 Olympics and G4S, SIA Discrepancies at so many companies and how the likes of Bewick ended up getting paid a fortune for the 2012 Olympics too. Not the topic though but what happened at Stadiums and Arena's around the UK was conveniently swept under the rug. If anyone's interested, under this Doshi bloke I'd give you a figure of about 7/10 Taxi drivers in Sunderland fiddling their books with him. How does one come to such a figure? They're very open about it, almost bragging about it. I'm no accountant and luckily I'm PAYE taxed and always have been but I have heard one of the methods they're told to use, again someone else will need to shed light on what they're actually doing. It involves filling up at the end of the shift but doing it twice? Fueling > Stop > Pay and get receipt > Properly fill up. I think that's what I got told anyway. Something involving two receipts or filling up twice.
So in summary you're not wrong but in a lot of cases, they go a lot further than just tax dodging in some workplaces. In my industry I've seen pages ripped out of SIA logbooks (Illegal) Black people, yep just the black lads told to pull a 48 hour shift. I could swear they've fiddled with payslips and tax too. Way past that now though into something completely legit and well paying.