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I don't know what people are so upset about. She only failed to pay a little bit of tax. Hundreds of bankers and multinationals so the same and nobody says anything.

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[โ€“] FarceOfWill 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

I dont really get why this is seen as an issue. This is fiendishly complex law that can easily be missed, and the trust was set up to try and give a child their own "stuff" as divorce made the parents doing it impossible.

Thus is just a non story.

Id rather the press was asking about the idcards that starmer has gone and raised again. Or their mad plans to ban vpns(?)

[โ€“] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Would you be happy then if the next Tory politician found avoiding tax said:

This is fiendishly complex law that can easily be missed, the trust was set up to try and give my family stuff.

I agree this is probably been elevated as a story because of who she is, but I think it's right that she gets called out for this type of thing. We shouldn't turn a blind eye to tax evasion not matter how small. People need to pay their fair share of tax!

[โ€“] FarceOfWill 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Right but they're usually doing something complicated to pay less tax.

Getting that wrong and underpaying is much worse than doing something complicated to deal with a complicated family issue, and the advisors missing an incredibly tough point combining multiple specialities.

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