Comedian has last laugh.
Tax Man not finding it amusing.
Mr Cameron arguing that it is morally repugnant to take advantage of loopholes.
Ken Dodd ought to give him a tickle with his tickling stick and invite him to spend a week in Knotty Ash, it would make a salutary change after Mexico.
In the, 'We're all in it together' world of make believe as invented by Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne some are more in it than others.
I pay tax, don't have any choice really, I pay tax on my pensions including my State Pension.
I also pay tax on everything I buy including fuel which is so popular it is taxed twice.
I also pay an insidious little tax called inflation, which is a tax on both the income that I receive, which is steadily eroded and on what I spend which equally steadily, increases.
It has of course always been thus.
Rock Stars, Football Stars, Movie Stars and quite a few politicians and politicians families have come up with ingenious ways of avoiding paying or simply paying less tax.
As the Rolling Stones sang, it was Exile on Main Street and George Harrison of course made an anti hero of the Tax Man, not only because he taxed high earning musicians but because he would tax the pennies on your eyes when you were dead.
The Tax Man is both the hero and the villain of the piece in the current debate.
On the one hand, if we want to have all the good things that a civilised society wishes for good health, education, peace, welfare as well as the things we need like prisons and parliament, alongside some obvious luxuries such as a Monarchy and the Olympics, then it all has to be paid for and we all have to dip into our pockets.
The tax man properly draws attention to the fact that some don't dip into their pockets as deeply as others are made to.
And ingenious schemers spend their waking hours dreaming up ways of helping their wealthy clients pay less.
Ken Dodd famously kept his in cash in the loft in a suitcase, presumably reflecting that the loss of interest and inflation was less of an issue than the tax mans take, others find offshore to be the place to stash the cash, however it is done the aim is to pay as little as you can.
The head of the International Monetary Fund caused a fuss recently when she accused the Greek people of not paying their taxes.
But that turned out to be a bit stones and glass houses when it was revealed that her not insignificant salary was tax free.
Maybe a clearer connection between what is raised through taxation and what the money is spent on might help folk feel better towards the tax man and realise that the comedian is laughing with them and not at them ........
Tax Man not finding it amusing.
Mr Cameron arguing that it is morally repugnant to take advantage of loopholes.
Ken Dodd ought to give him a tickle with his tickling stick and invite him to spend a week in Knotty Ash, it would make a salutary change after Mexico.
In the, 'We're all in it together' world of make believe as invented by Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne some are more in it than others.
I pay tax, don't have any choice really, I pay tax on my pensions including my State Pension.
I also pay tax on everything I buy including fuel which is so popular it is taxed twice.
I also pay an insidious little tax called inflation, which is a tax on both the income that I receive, which is steadily eroded and on what I spend which equally steadily, increases.
It has of course always been thus.
Rock Stars, Football Stars, Movie Stars and quite a few politicians and politicians families have come up with ingenious ways of avoiding paying or simply paying less tax.
As the Rolling Stones sang, it was Exile on Main Street and George Harrison of course made an anti hero of the Tax Man, not only because he taxed high earning musicians but because he would tax the pennies on your eyes when you were dead.
The Tax Man is both the hero and the villain of the piece in the current debate.
On the one hand, if we want to have all the good things that a civilised society wishes for good health, education, peace, welfare as well as the things we need like prisons and parliament, alongside some obvious luxuries such as a Monarchy and the Olympics, then it all has to be paid for and we all have to dip into our pockets.
The tax man properly draws attention to the fact that some don't dip into their pockets as deeply as others are made to.
And ingenious schemers spend their waking hours dreaming up ways of helping their wealthy clients pay less.
Ken Dodd famously kept his in cash in the loft in a suitcase, presumably reflecting that the loss of interest and inflation was less of an issue than the tax mans take, others find offshore to be the place to stash the cash, however it is done the aim is to pay as little as you can.
The head of the International Monetary Fund caused a fuss recently when she accused the Greek people of not paying their taxes.
But that turned out to be a bit stones and glass houses when it was revealed that her not insignificant salary was tax free.
Maybe a clearer connection between what is raised through taxation and what the money is spent on might help folk feel better towards the tax man and realise that the comedian is laughing with them and not at them ........
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