Rounding Up the Hole-in-the-Bank Gang Ken Symon On Amnesty for Tax Evaders
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IN the Western TV series Alias Smith And Jones, the two bank robber heroes Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry who were trying to go straight had to keep out of trouble for a year in order for their amnesty to kick in. As the Kid says when this is explained to the two former members of the Devil's Hole gang: "That's a good deal? !" Today in Britain more than 45,000 well-off people have decided that a quite different sort of amnesty was a good deal or perhaps to mix screen metaphors just an offer they couldn't refuse.
These tax evaders have in the past few weeks decided to come clean about previously undisclosed offshore accounts and the money they have salted away in them (given that we are talking about offshore accounts "salted away" does seem a most apposite phrase).See the full content of this document
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Rounding Up the Hole-in-the-Bank Gang Ken Symon On Amnesty for Tax Evaders
It certainly appears to be a good deal for all of us who (however grudgingly) do pay our taxes because this unprecedented HM Revenue & Customs amnesty is on track to raise somewhere between GBP750 million and GBP1 billion.
The amn...See the full content of this document
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