I am on benefits due to illness. I will be able to get more money if these rich pigs pay their taxes properly. I am truely disgusted by the filthy rich who are greedier than me with my sweets when I was a kid.
Tax avoidance schemes cost the UK £3.1bn in 2012-13 (the most recent figures), the HMRC says
The HMRC says: "The avoidance tax gap
is an annual estimate of the tax lost due to avoidance schemes that are
subject to HMRC scrutiny and frustrate the intention of Parliament."
£1.4bn of that was through income tax, national insurance contributions and capital gains tax
£1.3bn was in unpaid corporation tax
£0.1bn was lost through VAT and the remaining £0.2bn was through other direct taxes
Source: HMRC
According to a YouGov survey
published in November, 63% of British people said they believed the
moral duty to contribute to public services was stronger than the right
to keep the money one earns. In the US, only 37% agreed. Attitudes
may have hardened since then, following revelations that banking giant
HSBC helped wealthy clients across the world evade hundreds of millions
of pounds in tax. It's true that different people who use the
term "tax avoidance" mean very different things by it, as Shadow
Chancellor Ed Balls found when he was drawn into a row about whether one
should get a receipt for hedge-trimming services and was subject to a
newspaper investigation into how he pays his window cleaner.
Income tax - who pays what?
Basic rate 20% - £0 to £31,865
Higher rate 40% - £31,866 to £150,000
Additional rate 45% - over £150,000
Most people are entitled to earn the first £10,000 tax free
Source: HMRC
Here is a list of Britain's wealthiest 25 people, according to The Sunday Times Rich List:
Len Blavatnik £13.17 billion
Sri and Gopi Hinduja £13 billion
Galen and George Weston and family £11 billion
Alisher Usmanov £9.8 billion
David and Simon Reuben £9.7 billion
Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli £9.45 billion
Lakshmi Mittal and family £9.2 billion
Kirsten and Jorn Rausing £8.7 billion
The Duke of Westminster £8.56 billion
Roman Abramovich £7.29 billion
John Fredriksen and family £7.24 billion
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho £7.145 billion
Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay £6.5 billion
Hans Rausing and family £6.4 billion
Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber and family £5.935 billion
Carrie and Francois Perrodo and family £5.8 billion
Nathan Kirsh £5.06 billion
Earl Cadogan and family £4.8 billion
Nicky Oppenheimer and family £4.55 billion
Sir Richard Branson and family £4.1 billion
Bruno Schroder and family £3.76 billion
Mike Ashley £3.5 billion, Sir James Dyson and family £3.5 billion, Sir Philip and Lady Green £3.5 billion
