Jimmy Carr is stopping Tramlink extension to Sutton, says MP

“Bankers,politicians,somali pirates,murdoch,where is green lantern,batman, when you need them ??”

“Have to agree with many posters here, everyone avoids tax where they can.

That manifests itself in ISAs, pension payments, payments by cash to builders/plumers/gardeners etc.

Self employed manage their income over periods to reduce tax and make use of every expense offset they can.

And so on, tax is this country is too high for what we get. Either reduce it or increase the value for every £1 taken. The NHs in places is crying out for resource, yet it goes on ever increasing staff pay escalators and pointless red tape.”

“Let He who throws the First Stone...!!!!
My Ex Husband was In the High Tax band, and I worked in a Supermarket and paid 48% tax for him. (No choice in the matter). You can Imagion My out come each week, And Holidays/Bonus. I ended up almost owing them money.!
If you can do it within the law . then do it.
They are screwing you everyother which way.”

“Some virtuous people on this thread. Sadly I'm not one of them: when my plumber fits out my fourth bathroom I will have to pay him in cash, so I'm as guilty as he is of avoiding paying tax albeit indirectly. Which of you will insist on paying by cheque on receipt of an official invoice? Who will refuse to take advantage of a promotion offering a day trip for a fiver to meet Ivor in the wine aisle? (Who, indeed could resist meeting Ivor in any aisle?) None of us say to HMRC "oh, that's OK, take an extra £200 this month because I don't really need it".

Vodaphone on the other hand said "yes, we owe it but no, you can't have it" and HMRC rolled over with its legs in the air. Wish that worked for me.”

“As the British economy continues on its downwards spiral to oblivion you will see less people working and more on benefits.

I would like to point out that on the 2 occasions I was thrown out of my PAYE safe job (major supermarket chain and major UK insurer), when my department was outsourced to India, on neither occasion did I receive any benefit and on neither occasion was I included in the statistics. I saw the same thing happen to a friend - so the unemployed statistics are lies.

How many of us NEVER 'avoid' paying taxes? Remember HMRC tax receipts suffer every time you buy duty free goods, every time you take out an ISA, donate money to charity (and allow the charity to reclaim tax). So we are all guilty of tax avoidance - as often as we can.
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, pot calling kettle black etc.

Me - I'm just popping down to Lidl to pick up a nice bottle of Cotes du Rhone for 1.79 a bottle - Euros that is or less than £1.50 in France. - it would be nearer £4.50 in Addo Lidl, but that's another £3 tax I'll avoid paying.”

“I would like to point Mr Tom Brake in the direction of this delightful info-graphic:

http://tinyurl.com/cssprnf

Perhaps Mr Brake would like to explain why HMRC have again turned a blind eye to Vodafone's large-scale corporate tax theft, and concentrated their visible efforts on carefully crafted media distraction bombs, such as in the case of Jimmy Carr?”

“The term "fair share" interests me. When I first married, my husband enjoyed a married man's tax allowance, but this was changed, allegedly for my sake, giving each of us a single person's tax allowance. This could have enabled me to earn a high salary and pay my income tax without telling him how much I earned, but in fact I didn't earn anything so the overall result was that he paid tax at the highest rate and my tax-free allowance was unused, so we were worse off. In France our income and allowances would be pooled so my allowance would not be wasted.

There probably aren't many young women now who can choose to stay at home while bringing up the children, but the current system penalises such families. Now, which is more unfair, the taxes paid by these families or the tax unpaid by Jimmy Carr? I know which annoys me more!”

“Tax rates at the top end are too high. The top few percent pay the majority of income tax as well.

It seems there are endless streams of neer-do-wells in society who firmly believe they are owed an ever bigger share of higher earners income simply because they draw breath.

I don't know about anyone else, but when I go to work it is primarily to pay for my family to live as we do, not out of some grandiose holier than thou "for the greater good" notion.

By all means tax to provide basic state services and a very basic safety net, but other than that, taxation for redistribution to keep some not very productive working age people in with tvs, mobiles and the like is not my idea of why I go to work.”

“"TAX dodgers are denying Sutton residents access to key services, including a possible tram extension, according one of the borough's MPs"--------------------And so are MPs who deliberately claim more than they are entitled to by way of expences, in both cases it is OUR hard earned cash.”

“Whilst I do not support what Jimmy Carr has done tax wise, I am getting a bit fed up with him being the target of every MPs distaste.Come on look into the corruption in the banks and the tax dodging of big companies, this is literally billions of pounds being swandered, this money would help shore up the NHS carry out all the other things Tom mentions plus many more worthy things.

Think outside the box Tom hit every company as well as people not paying tax and make the tax system fair for everybody close these loop holes. Create more jobs so the taxes can go back into the system, help people back to work for a fair wage so they can pay tax too. Encourage rich people and companies to invest in building companies that will get people into work and out of benefits and poverty. Stop wasting money on things we do not need and spend taxes on what we do.
It maybe a nice box to be in Tom but the world is falling apart around it and a remedy is needed fast.”