Tax avoidance is immoral - HMG

[NotAllThere]

As an MP, he certainly is well acquainted with the immoral.

[sweetandsour]

People who use their ISA allowance are evil bastards. Is that what they are saying now?

Yes.

Higher-rate tax payers who tick the "gift aid" box when they make charitable donations are no better.

[Sysman]

People who use their ISA allowance are evil bastards. Is that what they are saying now?

Beat me to it!

[The Lone Gunman]

Timms is right. We all have a moral duty to pay the right amount of tax.
I also have a duty, and a right to arrange my affairs in such a way that I pay the least amount of tax possible within the law.

What about the moral obligation of any Government to keep the amount it requires its citizens to pay at a bare minimum.

Timms comes out fairly clean on the old expenses game but the rest of them do not. How can MPs try to claim the moral high ground when so many of them have been dipping into our pockets to buy second homes in London or to pay their spouses 40K a year for a 10K job?

[mace]

Pensioners are the worst. They're either sponging off the hard pressed taxpayer now or got a decent pot going by avoiding huge wads of tax when they were working. I'm not interested in the war or how great it was in the 60s. And they expect me to give them a seat, cheeky beggars.

[mace]

Pensioners are the worst. They're either sponging off the hard pressed taxpayer now or got a decent pot going by avoiding huge wads of tax when they were working. I'm not interested in the war or how great it was in the 60s. And they expect me to give them a seat, cheeky beggars.

[DimPrawn]

Pensioners are the worst. They're either sponging off the hard pressed taxpayer now or got a decent pot going by avoiding huge wads of tax when they were working. I'm not interested in the war or how great it was in the 60s. And they expect me to give them a seat, cheeky beggars.

You can say that again.

[Bright Spark]

Timms is right. We all have a moral duty to pay the right amount of tax.

Yes isn't that what we do under self assessment? tax avoidance is a legal
way to manage your affairs to reduce your tax bill, how can that be immoral?

[MPwannadecentincome]

Pensioners are the worst. They're either sponging off the hard pressed taxpayer now or got a decent pot going by avoiding huge wads of tax when they were working. I'm not interested in the war or how great it was in the 60s. And they expect me to give them a seat, cheeky beggars.

Pensioners are the worst. They're either sponging off the hard pressed taxpayer now or got a decent pot going by avoiding huge wads of tax when they were working. I'm not interested in the war or how great it was in the 60s. And they expect me to give them a seat, cheeky beggars.

its so bad you had to say it twice!

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Perhaps it would be best if everyone handed over 100% of their income to the government and let them distribute it all in the way that it thinks is fair?

The really upsetting thing is, I believe that statement would play in Downing St without a hint of irony.