The rate of corporation tax is a lot lower than personal tax at higher income levels and there are all sorts of concessions through which people paid in this manner wind up paying a lot less tax (proportionately) than the rest of us. All perfectly legal of course but the end result is earn more money and pay less tax.
Why people should give a toss is because it's their licence fee money which is paying these bloated wages. Gary Lineker gives me marginally more pleasure than a stubbed toe but that doesn't mean he's good value or that someone else couldn't do it just as well for a lot less. Someone who isn't already a multimillionaire maybe. The BBC is a publicly funded organisation and ought to care about giving value to those who pay the wages, not just giving overrated so called 'stars' what they reckon they're worth. None of these people is hard up and if they really love the BBC as much as they say and believe in the special status it supposedly has in the nation's hearts I'm sure most of them won't mind earning a little less. Of course if all that's just a load of twaddle and they're just greedy well let them take their greed elsewhere and see how they get on.
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Originally Posted by papa smurf
pay tax  oh bless |
Yep, there have been lots of tax avoidance schemes which have been closed down but which were used by rich celebrities (and others) so they could keep even more of the millions they earned and reduce what they paid into the nation's coffers to help pay for all those worthy causes they like to dine out on. That these same people so often seem to be able to whine on about poverty and greed without being exposed as complete hypocrites is beyond me.