Thursday, October 28, 2010

George Osborne avoids paying his tax, and has also run into trouble with child benefit

George Osborne has avoided paying tax  to the tune of £1.5 million.

If this information makes you feel less than happy, here is a petition:

I tweeted this, and it got 14 retweets, which is my second best, and an indication of the amount of revulsion at the naked hypocrisy of the Cleggeron Coalition, who are weighing in to the poor, and the fabric of the UK state, while feathering the nests of the rich.

Meanwhile, in another part of the jungle that it Her Majesty's Government, Osborne's brilliant plan to cut child benefit for higher rate taxpayers is in deep doo-doo because child benefit is paid to the mother, who is not necessarily the  taxpayer. "A Treasury source says the policy is “unenforceable” and likely to be ditched before its scheduled introduction in 2013"

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