TAXTOPIA: How I Discovered the Injustices, Scams and Guilty Secrets of the Tax Evasion Game

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Taxtopia’s anonymous author has done the impossible – created a hilarious and deeply troubling expose about how the world’s shady tax system is exploited and proves what we always suspected – that our tax system is rigged against us. Read it and weep.’– Geraint Anderson author of City Boy If you have ever paid an accountant, they have charged you what they think they can get away with, not what the work is worth. Always complain about your fee.”

The book is enormously readable ... I would very much recommend reading Taxtopia because it's the most hilarious book about tax I've ever read!' - Siân Pattenden, The Bunker Compare this with how benefits abuse is handled and the situation seems even more unjust. For every person prosecuted for tax fraud in the UK between 2009 and 2019, 23 were pursued over benefits fraud, according to the think tank TaxWatch – and yet tax offences cost the country nine times more.

Big-name and big-money disputes like this have provoked schadenfreude-fuelled headlines for years, often involving far more complicated disputes over alleged “dodges”. Often it’s HMRC that wins. When it comes to the accountants and lawyers who help evaders, the number of them facing justice is even lower – with just eight cases being prosecuted in the past two years, it was disclosed this month. Established in 2011, the Young Money Blog was the first British blog to help young people get to grips with personal finance.

In TAXTOPIA a rogue accountant breaks ranks to share his journey from clueless naif to skilled tax consultant -and in doing so blows the lid on the murky world of making the tax burdens of the ultra-wealthy disappear.Effectively the richer you are the more you get to decide whether you’d rather pay tax or give to charity (or in some cases neither).” We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin.

Let’s be honest: this vastly simplified tax regime is almost certainly never, ever going to be introduced. But is that because it’s a bad set of ideas? Or because the rich and powerful would simply never stand for it – while the rest of us are too used to the way things are?Ah yes, those devious accountants. They usually manage to slip away without any of us learning their names, even if all the celebrities blame them. On the Profile tab, add information collaborators may find helpful, like your expertise, interests, or experience. Most clients of the top firms have cash in illegal accounts, which the firm ‘doesn’t know about’. Or rather it does, but it just asks the client not to tell them about it…. so it ‘doesn’t know’. In your Viva Engage settings, you can view networks, account activity, applications, and change your notification settings and language preferences. His day job, he tells me, “can be as simple as saying: don’t sell that thing this year, sell it next year, because you’ll pay less tax. Or it can involve convoluted international structures for large corporations.” But he is a rebel with a cause: he would like the UK to have a tax system so fair and simple that jobs like his didn’t exist, because there would be no loopholes to exploit.

Though he insists that he has never “personally done anything illegal, or even perhaps unethical”, he knows of many others who have. He wanted to remain anonymous so he could freely reveal the “cheats and scandals, sex and violence, conflict and lies” involved in dodging tax, he writes in his book. It’s beautifully simple, and we don’t get to hear the downsides or difficulties, but that can be forgiven. We also don’t get to know what happened to our hero. I’d like to think he was out there still rebelling, perhaps advising the good guys. Ongoing Covid restrictions, reduced air and freight capacity, high volumes and winter weather conditions are all impacting transportation and local delivery across the globe. And did you know that the likes of Elon Musk pay no income tax? That’s because they use borrowings, not salary, to fund their lives. In death, the borrowings simply reduce the estate left to heirs – cutting the tax bill. But nothing happened – “Ernst & Young’s profits went up and Lewis was knighted by the Queen”. That’s because when HM Treasury investigated the Isle of Man leasing company, it found no evidence of VAT fraud as it hadAll kinds of firms are involved in this duel with HMRC, he says. “You get specialist one- and two-man operations that spring up and go: ‘Here’s some clever way of avoiding stamp duty land tax.’ But on the industrial scale, you get large firms advising their clients in very lawful ways how to pay less tax.” The book is enormously readable ... I would very much recommend reading Taxtopia because it's the most hilarious book about tax I've ever read!' - Sian Pattenden, The Bunker