Somebody ought to write to Millipede and ask him if has forgone Parliamentary pensions as they are a tax avoidance scheme, does he claim any MP's expenses, another tax avoidance scheme? As a rich person if he has any ISA's or ever bought a duty free bottle on the way back from holiday as John Redwood pointed out in his diary today they are both tax avoidance schemes! Maybe he is getting his children hooked on tax avoidance early by having accounts in the Labour childrens savings scheme?
Maybe he should be standing outside the Post Office telling poor pensioners who have just bought into the current pension bond, they are evil tax avoiders.
At the end of the day we all have a duty to ourselves and our families to minimise what we pay in tax and likewise companies have a legal obligation to minimise the tax their companies pay to maximise the shareholders dividends, not to do so is a dereliction of their fiduciary duties.
Government set the rules that we all have to abide by them, if they do so incompetently then expect individuals and companies to take advantage of their incompetence. Tax havens are what Governments loath above all as they want monopolies over all they control and tax havens provide honest competition. If they and other more efficient countries with lower taxes didn't exist we would much higher taxed and all be the poorer for it.
Tax evasion is illegal and a completely different matter and should rightly be punished.
Anyway puzzled from Sandhurst: Millipede as a socialist, why is he accepting a wage above the average in the UK, where socialism is about equality for all and surely that means not earning more than the average? Alternatively, is he like every other socialist I've ever met, grabbing all he can and as a hypocrite preaching equality! Don't do what I do, do what I say!
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