Tax and austerity are seemingly currently joined at the hip. All too often the media is divisive and, in some cases, plain ignorant in its reporting of tax issues.
The way in which tax is reported by the media at large bears no resemblance to the way in which it is reported in journals such as this. The dumbing-down of tax issues to the lowest common denominator simply does not work. Even on BBC Radio 4’s The Today Programme and in the broadsheets tax issues are sensationally badly reported.
Take for example the haranguing of the Prime Minister by John Humphrys on 23 April about aggressive tax avoidance. The PM was asked to comment on Sir...
