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I Blame the Government

Simon Yates adds to the debate on the Guardian's 'Tax Gap' series on tax avoidance

 
Simon Yates adds to the debate on the Guardian's 'Tax Gap' series on tax avoidance
 
Let's get this out of the way first: I am an Islington-dwelling lifelong Guardian reader. I am a pretty much fully paid-up woolly liberal. However just to set the limits I don't own any sandals and I suspect I'd hate mung beans if I knew exactly what they were. I welcome the debate about tax avoidance which the Guardian's Tax Gap series has provoked. I believe that there are a lot of major taxpayers (or potential major taxpayers where their planning is really effective) who are not paying their fair share and that this is damaging to the UK economy...

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