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What exactly is tax avoidance?

20 September 2010, 13:24

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35 Voters

Using offshore accounts	14.29%	5 votes
Using loophole schemes (EBTs)	17.14%	6 votes
Paying yourself in dividends instead of salary	11.43%	4 votes
Being a non-dom	14.29%	5 votes
Putting money in an ISA	8.57%	3 votes
Tax planning with a pension fund	8.57%	3 votes
Using Andyw as an accountant?	25.71%	9 votes

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20 September 2010, 13:33

obvious guilty bloke looking to see how far he can get away with stuff

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20 September 2010, 13:35

There is a fine line. but I've no idea where it is.

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20 September 2010, 13:42

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I haven't done anything illegal - I'm curious as to what counts as 'morally indefensible'

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20 September 2010, 13:43

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I'm curious as to what counts as 'morally indefensible'

Taking away half of someone else's money under threat of force.

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20 September 2010, 13:45

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I'm curious as to what counts as 'morally indefensible'

2 Spending more money than the people can afford to give you, thereby saddling their children with debts.

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20 September 2010, 13:46

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I'm curious as to what counts as 'morally indefensible'

3 Mortgaging the population's future to banks run by people who are not democratically accountable.

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20 September 2010, 13:47

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I'm curious as to what counts as 'morally indefensible'

4 Perverting the English language to call spending more money than we have 'investing in public services'.

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20 September 2010, 13:48

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I'm curious as to what counts as 'morally indefensible'

5 Selling the people's gold at an irresponsibly low price.

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20 September 2010, 13:52

Every man is entitled if he can to order his affairs so as that the tax attaching under the appropriate Acts is less than it otherwise would be. If he succeeds in ordering them so as to secure this result, then, however unappreciative the Commissioners of Inland Revenue or his fellow taxpayers may be of his ingenuity, he cannot be compelled to pay an increased tax.

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