Tax and Morals

[webberg]

An interesting article and debate of the blog here. Tax Research UK » Tackling ‘the boys’

This is an interesting piece but a word of warning.

Mr Murphy is regarded by many in the tax profession as being an outlier in terms of his views.

He espouses a "fair" tax policy in which pretty much every misdemeanour is punished with little grading for the severity of the alleged offence.

His use of statistics to prove his point has come in for criticism from many sources, including HMRC.

By all means read his material, nobody has a monopoly on the truth, but be aware that he might represent a view that is not currently mainstream.

[squirrel]

The below is not mine but an extract from a speech by Jolyon Maugham.

"But perhaps more importantly, I don’t think it’s not a winnable argument with the public."

This is the same public that regularly do deals for cash to get a better price / evade tax. Why hasn't there been more made of this by the politicians? Oh yes, that's right because there are too many people that do that cash in hand stuff and they'd lose too many votes...

[cojak]

This is an interesting piece but a word of warning.

Mr Murphy is regarded by many in the tax profession as being an outlier in terms of his views.

He espouses a "fair" tax policy in which pretty much every misdemeanour is punished with little grading for the severity of the alleged offence.

His use of statistics to prove his point has come in for criticism from many sources, including HMRC.

By all means read his material, nobody has a monopoly on the truth, but be aware that he might represent a view that is not currently mainstream.

I was actually thinking of the comments below the article (to which Jolyon has contributed), but quite right for pointing this out, thank you webberg.