Argentia, anyone heard of them?

[Vallah]

"and they would have been right - at the time it was avoidance and not evasion. "

Nope - can't see a problem with that.

Or were you unhappy and her calling them a 'crowd'?

OK, try this one for size then:

However, HMR&C have moved the goalposts and decided that actually it was evasion and that everyone should have known it was evasion and therefore everyone deserves huge penalties and fines

Have HMRC said that Mr Huitson is guilty of tax evasion then?

[NotAllThere]

Vallah has a problem parsing English, and understanding that "stop" means "stop". But now he's a couple of days for remedial study.

[DaveB]

OK, try this one for size then:

However, HMR&C have moved the goalposts and decided that actually it was evasion and that everyone should have known it was evasion and therefore everyone deserves huge penalties and fines

Have HMRC said that Mr Huitson is guilty of tax evasion then?

Again, technically, he is according to the letter of the law and I suspect this is exactly what HMRC are saying privately to ministers to justify what they are doing. They know full well they wont get away with in the courts for the reasons I've said before. If they had even the slimmest thought that they could get away with it they would have passed the whole lot over to be dealt with as criminal cases and not civil ones.