These tax scams are all legal – that's morally repugnant | Simon Jenkins

Cameron and Osborne thunder about the likes of Jimmy Carr, but seem terrified of upsetting the rich or closing tax havensI sympathise with Jimmy Carr. He makes it from Slough to Cambridge, cracks a few jokes and finds that two plus two equals ten after tax. Then along come some posh geezers crying, "Oh I say, that Carr chap may be legal but he's morally repugnant. Let's duck him in the bog."My accountant once informed me that I too could inherit the earth, or at least deny a fragment of it to th...

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