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Medium Term Expenditure Framework => The Revenue Framework => Topic started by: John Short on October 29, 2013, 18:20:18 GMT

Title: The double Irish Dutch sandwich and other exotic tax phrases
Post by: John Short on October 29, 2013, 18:20:18 GMT

Aggressive interviewing on those who made it and by those who made it through the winds and rain down south

Title: Re: The double Irish Dutch sandwich and other exotic tax phrases
Post by: harnett on October 31, 2013, 17:35:13 GMT

Edward Troup, tax assurance commissioner, faced some serious questioning...he was asked if he really once wrote an article which said: "Taxation is legalised extortion." He confirmed that he had written it but said that it was in the 1990s.

These are the people safeguarding public finance!!!!  No wonder the policy to recoup taxable income from UK residents who hide money in Swiss bank accounts has gained just £440m so far this year, instead of the £3.12bn expected.