Archive for the ‘Inland Revenue’ Category

What is “tax avoidance”?

Monday, March 8th, 2010

The government and its tax authorities are getting so short of cash that they have developed a special spin language to imply that not paying tax when the rules don’t require it is wrong, verging on immoral. Their key buzz word is “avoidance”, which is their technical mumbo jumbo meaning ...

Funny Money

Monday, June 26th, 2006

The text from a letter from the UK's Inland Revenue to a poor tax payer (Chris Addison) which was published in the Guardian newspaper in September 2003, has been circulating again in email circles. It made me laugh, so I thought I'd share it with you.