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Originally Posted by Gogogo
We could send a gunboat.
On the other hand stopping farming subsidies for the wealthy landowners in the UK could be a start and I don't mean the poorer farmers who need subsidies.
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Yeah, I reckon the Duke of Westminster could scrape by without!!
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Originally Posted by punky
At least what they are doing is entirely legal, unlike the groups mentioened at the beginning of their post.
It is a vicious circle. Everyone tries to get out of paying tax because we pay such a ridiculously high amount of it, so as people find ways out of it, the governments just raise it.
There are a few options to help sort it, like removing income tax in favour of a super-high sales tax. Not sure they will do any good. In a way you can't really blame them. They earn money and it is important to them as well as us. Does anyone want to pay out 1p more than that have to? Can people afford to give away money based on a principle?
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Legal but not moral (and sometimes very borderline legal - and if they get caught a cosy settlement with the Revenue rather than up before the local JPs)
I don't think we do pay a ridiculously high amount of tax; many people pay a disproportionate amount of tax because the wealthy (the greedy) dodge whilst us mortals can't.
Everyone tries to get out of paying tax? Read the quote from the Bishop in that article. The culture of tax avoidance is part of the problem (cf to moral panics about benefit fraud). Incidentally I'm self employed and don't try to avoid tax, so don't include me in the everyone
I appreciate public services and as a one man drain on the NHS am happy to pay my whack.
A high sales tax instead of Income Tax? Nooooooooo! Indirect taxation always hits the poorest hardest. Income Tax is, well, related to income which makes it fairer (except when income disappears off to the Caymans).