No prosecutions: Were Tory tax evasion laws to protect their friends rather than prosecute OUR enemies?
Draw your own conclusions from this report by Left Foot Forward:
Not a single person has been jailed or even prosecuted for tax evasion since the Tories brought in what they claimed were “tough” new measures against tax dodgers, it was shown today.
Two new laws criminalising corporate tax evasion came into force last September, but not a single person has faced prosecution, it’s been revealed, despite tax dodging amounting to at least £7bn last year alone.
Responding to a written question, Mel Stride, Secretary to the Treasury admitted:
“To date no prosecutions have been either brought to court or completed under the ‘failure to prevent the facilitation of UK and foreign tax evasion’ clause of the Criminal Finances Act 2017.”
And it was revealed in February that the Tories’ tax avoidance measures since 2010 are raising billions less than the amounts first promised.
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only the peasants shall they chase
Same old tories who will only ever legislate for what benefits them, their donors and supporters. Little changes. I remember all too well Osborne’s pugnacious talk about
toughening up tax collection which was immediately followed up by sacking around half of the Inland Revenue’s tax inspectors. It would be funny if it wasn’t true.
The country is a joke run by clowns for sheep if it had a backbone there would be a revolution by now
They aren’t going to upset their wealthy donors now are they?