This whole tax avoidance business....

[Eirikur]

The 'Mrs. Brown's Boys' tax avoidance flagged by the Paradise Papers was unexpected and raised a smile -
0% income tax for several cast members by using a 'fees to Mauritius then loan back' scheme

Cast member said he “never knew what the **** was going on”.
Pull the other one sunshine !

Why didn't this pedantic BBC panorama reporter not push a mike in QEII's face and ask her about her tax avoidance deals?

[northernladyuk]

Why didn't this pedantic BBC panorama reporter not push a mike in QEII's face and ask her about her tax avoidance deals?

In what way pedantic?

[shaunbhoy]

Why didn't this pedantic BBC panorama reporter not push a mike in QEII's face and ask her about her tax avoidance deals?

Because somebody equally pedantic might have pointed out to him that Tax Avoidance is not yet a crime, only Tax Evasion?

[northernladyuk]

Because somebody equally pedantic might have pointed out to him that Tax Avoidance is not yet a crime, only Tax Evasion?

It is OK to ask people about things that are not crimes.

[shaunbhoy]

It is OK to ask people about things that are not crimes.

It is, but there is hardly much of a public interest dimension.
You'd be as well asking her what kind of dog food she gives the royal Corgis.

[Eirikur]

In what way pedantic?

This guy was pretty prejudiced and self righteous in an extremely annoying manner. No neutral unbiased reporting.

[northernladyuk]

This guy was pretty prejudiced and self righteous in an extremely annoying manner. No neutral unbiased reporting.

In what way is that pedantic?

[northernladyuk]

It is, but there is hardly much of a public interest dimension.
You'd be as well asking her what kind of dog food she gives the royal Corgis.

No you wouldn't. There is a clear public interest dimension in offshore tax avoidance schemes.

[jamesbrown]

In what way is that pedantic?

In the way the Eirikur is better at German than English.

[m0n1k3r]

It's not what they have done wrong, it's what they are perceived to have done wrong.

Jealousy is not a good platform to base policies on.