I read that whole story and was bewildered with the emotional words within it. It doesn't just take a sweep at one set of the population but the whole spectrum as far as I can see.
Who does it claim to represent? The left or right? To me it seems to be the group known as "Throw the grenade into the middle of the room and run like hell"
Dave_Notts
All,
Wonders if the Daily Mail stance has anything to do with a certain senior person at the top of that Paper claiming to have been a non-Dom for UK tax for several years, apparently 'lives' in France.
However as there has been some exposure and questions on their qualification to continue to be in such a position, a full HMRC Tax investigation is being threatened/called for.
If this occurs and finds he has broken the rules, then it's understood that their UK tax liability could go back several years, not likely to be cheap.
So perhaps this article is part of his 'defence' by going on the 'offence', hoping that the resulting smoke screen will hide their own position ?
seems like a good opportunity to cut out the complexities of taxations, install a more manageable system. rather than spend what will be millions chasing after people who won't be able to pay.
The issue is to stop cheats, and I'm sure we are all for that. I'm damn sure that if I am paying my taxes and declaring my income truthfully, then I want everyone else to do the same, whether in regard to the benefits system or the tax system.
However if we have a crappy tax system that is shot full of holes and inconsistencies so that tax can be avoided / evaded if you have enough money to throw at your acountant, and a benefits system that enables scroungers to get lots of my money without working, then I want the systmes changed. But adding even more people into the staffing mix is not the right way to do it. We need complete reform of both systems. Which certainly does not mean giving massive IT or consultancy contracts to the "usual suspects" who were resonsible for the f***ed up and overpriced systems we've got at the moment
As far as using "lie detectors", (phone stress analysis) it is only what is being used by many corporations & departments at the moment.
K
