Wow, this is
great news and a move in the right direction but let's hope its true.
Jersey,
Guernsey and the Isle of Man signed an agreement to stop tax dodging.
It has to be
admired, their quick move after the revelation of the second tax dodging papers.
The first
scandal was the Panama Papers which in retrospect had no result in the UK
of any prosecution. The second was the Paradise Papers which many renamed
Parasite Papers.
At first
there were some chairs wobbling in Parliament but with the other scandal of
Sex-Pests in Westminster it seems to have slipped, again, out of the limelight
and apparently nothing will happen again.
Three
tax havens where fatcats can put their money through a complicated but legal
scheme, seem to have changed their minds.
Jersey’s
chief minister Ian Gorst said he wanted to ensure “our island and financial
services are not used by rogue operations”.
It is a good
start and hopefully the other tax haven islands will follow soon.
Tax
avoidance is legal by law and tax evasion is not but as a matter of fact they
both lose the country trillions of pounds. Both systems are nothing but tax
dodging and should be shut down. Surely no other country has such great amount
of unpaid taxes.
Even EU are
introducing laws to stop these tax dodging which nothing but ruin a country and
making greedy fatcats even richer.
A fine example is the UK. Never, in
recent decades had there been such a massive gap between Super-rich and poor
who chose between buying food or heating their home, even when they are
working. In the last two years there were thousands of dead caused by
starvation and/or hyperthermia.
Therefore,
it had to be admired and appreciated by the people that Jersey, Guernsey and
Isle of Man had taken the initiative so quickly to force tax dodgers out.
Tory
Government have promised for years to cut them down but nothing happened. HMRC
hardly have the staff to follow these complex routes because the government cut
11,000 and still planning a further 8,000.
How can
Cameron and May talk about stopping tax dodging when at the same time they cut
HMRC drastically. This is sheer hypocrisy.
The other
point is that most of the tax haven are British and furthermore all those tax
dodgers are donors to Conservatives and very close friends.
If they
would really attempt to stop tax dodging the fatcats would turn on them with
all the claws drawn and the Conservatives would not only be out of Government but also
bankrupt.
But why open their mouth and promise
knowing very well they would not and could not do it? People, today, are fully
informed and aware of the situation.
It had been reckoned that the UK loses £120bn a year and the Tories do nothing about it but rather cutting Welfare, forcing disabled, some terminal ill, people into work, Universal Credit now rolled out but for six weeks no money.
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