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<span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><h2 class="posttitle"><a class="entry-title" title="Secrets of the Taxman – Dispatches, Channel 4, 8pm this evening" href="http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2012/07/09/secrets-of-the-taxman-dispatches-channel-4-8pm-this-evening/" rel="bookmark">Secrets of the Taxman – Dispatches, Channel 4, 8pm this evening</a></h2><div class="postdata fix"><span class="category"><span class="icon"> </span></span></div><!-- /.title-container --><span class="post-format-icon"> </span> <div class="entry-container fix"><div class="entry entry-content fix"><p class="first-para"><a href="http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/articles/home" target="_blank"><font size="3">Dispatches on Channel 4 this evening </font></a><font size="3">is on what it calls the Secrets of the Taxman. As </font><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2170245/MAIL-ON-SUNDAY-COMMENT-Do-little-people-resent-tax-avoidance-And-does-Government-really-heart-tackle-problem.html#ixzz206krYXIO" target="_blank"><font size="3"> Mail on Sunday noted about the programme</font></a><font size="3"> yesterday:</font></p><p class="first-para"> </p><p class="first-para"><font size="3"></font> </p><blockquote><span><font size="3">"When George Osborne attacked tax avoiders as morally repugnant last March, he must have thought this would bring him easy political gains.<br></font></span><BR><span><font size="3">It has not worked out quite like that. Rather a lot of Tory donors and sympathisers have turned out to be tax avoiders.</font></span><BR><font size="3">…..</font><BR><strong><font size="4"><font style="font-size: 16pt;">Now, thanks to Channel 4’s Dispatches programme, we learn that members of HMRC’s board have links to companies which themselves face suggestions that they engage – quite legally – in tax avoidance</font>.</font></strong><BR><font size="3"></font> <BR><span><font size="3">If this is morally repugnant, as the Chancellor says it is, then it is quite clearly a conflict of interest for anyone connected with the tax system to be even remotely connected with such activities.</font></span><BR><span><font size="3"></font></span> <BR><span><font size="3">The public are entitled to wonder if HMRC, or the Government as a whole, really have their hearts in reducing avoidance to a bare minimum. Or are they merely pretending to be concerned, in the hope of diverting the anger and discontent of ordinary dutiful taxpayers?"</font></span><BR><span><font size="3"></font></span></blockquote><blockquote><span></span></span><br><BR></blockquote></div></div><p align="left"><strong><a href="http://www.facebook.com/ukuncut.sheffield" target="_blank">Sheffield Uncut</a></strong></p><p align="center"><strong></strong> </p><p align="center"> </p><strong></strong> <img style="width: 559px; height: 467px;" aria-busy="false" class="ecxspotlight" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" alt="" src="http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/399368_316417951783641_611196482_n.jpg"><br> <br><p align="center"><br> <a href="http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/blog/austerity-isnt-working" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/resources/46" target="_blank"></a><br><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002463157419#%21/events/435913626421285/" target="_blank"></a><br><a href="http://www.facebook.com/ukuncut.sheffield" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/ukuncut.sheffield</a><br></p><div class="ecxblocky"><span style="font-size: 1.8em; float: left;"> <font size="2">UK Uncut is a grassroots movement taking action to highlight </font><a class="ecxred ecxhover" href="http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/about/cuts" target="_blank"><font size="2">alternatives to the government's spending cuts</font></a></span><br style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 1.8em; margin-left: 1em; float: left;"><font size="2"> To keep up to date, follow us on </font><a class="ecxblue ecxhover" href="http://www.facebook.com/ukuncut" target="_blank"><font size="2">Facebook</font></a><font size="2"> and </font><a class="ecxblue ecxhover" href="http://www.twitter.com/ukuncut" target="_blank"><font size="2">Twitter</font></a></span><span style="font-size: 1.2em; float: left;"><font size="2"> You can also </font><a class="ecxgreen ecxhover" href="http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/accounts/new" target="_blank"><font size="2">sign up</font></a><font size="2"> to receive emails when someone lists an action near you </font></span><br> <br><br></div> </div></body>
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