UK Labour to crack down on tax cheats

• Anthony R0bins
• 9 years ago
• Categories: tax, uk politics
• Tags: tax, tax avoidance, tax cheats, white collar crime

Better late than never I guess – in the UK:

Labour pledges huge fines on tax avoiders to raise £7.5bn a year

Labour will declare an immediate, all-out war on tax avoidance and evasion if it wins the 7 May election, pushing emergency laws through parliament designed to raise more than £7.5bn a year.

That should put the cat among some comfortable establishment pigeons.

Here in NZ the Nats spend much more energy pursuing the much smaller problem of benefit fraud. That’s consistent with their ideology and purpose, serving the rich at the expense of the poor. But Labour should follow the UK example and tackle the huge tax avoidance and evasion problem.