Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs offers amnesty
for millionaire tax dodgers
Written by Niklas Albin SvenssonTuesday, 05 October 2010
Very rarely does one venture into the “personal finance” section of the business papers. Maybe it is because advice on how to invest your million pound fortune doesn't seem that relevant to your life situation. Sometimes, however, it pays off.
In the October 1st edition of City AM, Juliet Samuel offers kind advice on how to avoid paying taxes on your “untaxed funds” (that is, money that you've lied to the tax authorities about). It turns out that HMRC [Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs] have offered an amnesty for precisely this crime.Apparently, it is very expensive to prosecute tax evaders and very rarely do successful prosecutions land significant amounts of money, so the HMRC has simply decided to ask for volunteers to come clean and declare their previously undeclared earnings.
City AM, gracefully provides an example of how anyone with £10 million undeclared income in Lichtenstein could benefit from this. If you, in June 1990 deposited £10 million in Lichtenstein from some undeclared source and this money today is worth £20 million, you would normally have to pay around £14 million in taxes on interest and of course the original 40% income tax, plus a fine of around £3.2 million. However, with the amnesty, if you agree to pay £3.2 million in taxes plus a penalty of £0.2 million, you can now have amnesty from future prosecution. Thus, you can save about £14 million and sleep easier at night in your million pound mansion knowing that the HMRC is not after you.
Not everything is song and dance in tax dodger land, however. In spite of this generous offer, only 419 people registered in the first six months of the offer (the number in the past six months is rumoured to be around twice that), as opposed to the around 5,000 British investors holding £2-3 billion between them in accounts there (that is, half a million each on average). Law firm DLA Piper partner Simon Airey thinks that this might be because the deal has not been publicised enough by the HMRC. So, we can presume that City AM is lending a hand now.
It is not hard to understand why the HMRC has kept quiet about their offer of amnesty for rich tax dodgers with million pound tax accounts in tax havens. At a time when the government is introducing austerity measures in the public sector and benefits, giving tax breaks for the rich squares badly with the idea that “we are all in this together”.
Many believe we should pay taxes. The truism held is that taxes allow for the social safety net of the nation country to be maintained for the betterment of all. However, few understand that 85% of all national tax is paid to privately owner banking cartels in service to national debt interest. Said cartels fund governments through a federal reserve system at interest. Combine this private funding of government with the fractal reserve system of banking ( 10:1 ) and we determine how this unsustainable matrix is developed. It must also be noted this revolution of bankster fraud has only been established in the global first world over the last 100 years.
ReplyDeleteJustice can only be derived from education of the masses. The European Union is suffering under austerity measures only because of National interest rates have been increased on already debt laden nations. Iceland, Greece have fallen the rest of the Union is in peril. To be a true nationalist it is incumbent on each person to stop the fraud, stop paying taxes. How can this be done? There is a legal vehicle which allows you as an individual to step out of the dominion of state. You can legally become a free man on the land. Aside from saving thousands of pounds you do your part in erradicating the illegal marriage of state and corporations. People cannot see the first world has become a fascist cartel of mega corp dictates.
Do the right thing, become free from fiscal enslavement.
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