Ministers rally round Angela Rayner as she fights for political survival - BBC News
Ministers rally round Angela Rayner as she fights for political survival - BBC News
I don't know what people are so upset about. She only failed to pay a little bit of tax. Hundreds of bankers and multinationals so the same and nobody says anything.
Oh wait... 😅
The real question is what would happen to an ordinary member of the public. If it‘s just pay the difference with a penalty fee, but nothing else, that is what should happen. You could argue the fine should be bigger because she should know better, but the law is the law.
It‘s only a problem for her job if she used her position to influence the outcome. It sounds like she didn’t.
Yes. The vaste majority of tax underpayments. HMRC Will assume it is an error. Only charging a late fee. Unless they are forced to take a person or company to court to recover money. Errors are not punished beyond late payment charges.
Some evidence of intentional tax evasion is required for more significant punishment to be applied. Even then it of course has to go via a court first.
I dont really get why this is seen as an issue. This is fiendishly complex law that can easily be missed, and the trust was set up to try and give a child their own "stuff" as divorce made the parents doing it impossible.
Thus is just a non story.
Id rather the press was asking about the idcards that starmer has gone and raised again. Or their mad plans to ban vpns(?)
Tories have literally nothing else to play with so they are jumping in this with glee, in order to show "corruption" in the labour party.
Basically idiots throwing stones in a glass house
They're trying to establish a false equivalence with the vastly larger and more deliberate tax evasion committed by Nadhim Zahawi.
And the media is studiously turning a blind eye to the finances of Reform and particularly of Farage.
Would you be happy then if the next Tory politician found avoiding tax said:
This is fiendishly complex law that can easily be missed, the trust was set up to try and give my family stuff.
I agree this is probably been elevated as a story because of who she is, but I think it's right that she gets called out for this type of thing. We shouldn't turn a blind eye to tax evasion not matter how small. People need to pay their fair share of tax!
Setting up trusts is entirely legal, and there are some good reasons for it to continue to be so. Tax evasion is not one of those reasons, though.
But, having had long dealings with our good friends at HMRC, I can agree that even with expert tax advice, some of the regulations are extremely Byzantime and often irrational.
In this case, Rayner's sacking had nothing to do with criminal intent, but more to do with Starmer's fear of the fascist press (which he should have done a Leveson on as soon as Labour got into office).
If it was a Tory they probably would have refused to resign and they would have kept their job.
Very true that people should pay their taxes, I agree with that. So maybe Rayner should have been allowed to pay the correct tax, and any penalties for late payment, and then she could have kept her job.
Right but they're usually doing something complicated to pay less tax.
Getting that wrong and underpaying is much worse than doing something complicated to deal with a complicated family issue, and the advisors missing an incredibly tough point combining multiple specialities.
I don't care if she owes 40k to the tax man. It has nothing to do with the job.
It undermines the whole system if the stewerds of tax income themselves evade tax. They can pass a law to remove a tax or add a tax but they need to pay as we have to.
And she's out.
There goes one of the only people in the Starmer cabinet who resembled a normal human.