HMRC boss faces questions over Nadhim Zahawi's tax affairs at Select Committee
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A working person would be in prison.
He is a very hard working person, working hard to keep his job.
@@marvintpandroid2213 Working hard to avoid paying his taxes.
c'mon. Tories don't work. They get other underpaid ppl to work so they stay rich.
Working hard to heat his stables.
*_He's a deceitful, dishonest interloper ..._*
Tax evasion is literally organised crime that hurts everyone who isn't rich. It should be regarded in line with other serious organised crime, and those held accountable should be jailed. Zahawi says theres no money for nurses but there's plenty money for him to not pay tax. Real big time criminality.
Rich people, particularly Tories, hate the thought of their tax helping other people.
Why voters in England don't seem to realise that, baffles me but you continually vote them in and burden the rest of us with them who want nothing to do with them and can see through their lies.
Just after lockdown, the Tories were crowing about how crime rates were down (obviously, everyone was locked down). Until you looked at the figures for fraud. They were up.
Hit the nail on the head. Exactly what this is - a crime. Yet a team of 'lawyers' and tax evasion specialists are those who sit behind these MP's who are supposed to be leading the country. They show no good will towards the betterment of the country.
Not if they have endorsement from the King ! So yeh.. people have to understand what and why... and who... Just like, lots of people don't like that, we are being gazumped in the politics in the UK here... and then get bollocked.. after we also sacrificed as well towards the EU.... And now, they are playing us for idiots....
plenty of money for heated stables as well...
This is beyond corrupt and cringeworthy now - get him out for good
Maybe he needs to get on one of his well-warmed horses and ride into the Warwickshire sunset.
they are all at it it... probably quite literally
Harra needs to go as well , all accountants know he costs the U.K. taxpayer billions and his service delivery is shocking simply not fit for purpose. Harra has to go .
No keep him .he is bad for Torres
@@barrym3651 Tories are dead... they are a zombie government... happy days
Two tier fairness in the HMRC. If we owed a thousand they would get every penny. If you owe 10 million then you can argue how much you will pay. Bloody disgusting. And I thought we ALL had to pay what we OWE.
If I owe you £10 then it's my problem, if I owe you £10m then it's your problem. Not my own anecdote but true enough.
@Collier Well said ..as a system it stinks. "All men are equal but some are more equal than others " Sickening...
As a rule i don't like the American way of doing things.... but the one thing they will do is jail lying bastard's like him
@@AdrianNelson1507 That would surely depend on whether that 10 pounds would be the difference between eating or not today. Sounds like a quote coined by someone who is rich and wishes to excuse himself and his rich friends from responsibility.
If I owed 10 million I would also have a battery of tax accountants and tax lawyers to explore every loophole to make sure I paid the least amount possible, all completely within the law as it stands. Therein lies the problem.
A couple years back I underpaid tax by about £600 on PAYE (HMRC error not mine). HMRC were very quick to inform me, change my tax code and take back what I owed ! One rule for the working classes and one rule for the rich elite !
Tale as old as time
It's easier to see if someone hasn't paid PAYE
Nadim Zahawi would have paid expensive accountants and lawyers to find complex loopholes including tax havens to avoid tax which would take HMRC a while to trace
Happened to me too. Clearly they have a task force for the less wealthy. HMRC are a joke
They are not rich elites, they are fcuking THIEVES who are playing the system crookedly.
Not one of them has a moral bone in their bodies.
HMRC didn't ask for immediate repayment if they changed your tax code! You paid back the underpayment gradually over the course of the tax year. Seems very fair to me.
Never in my life seen such a obvious closing of rank and im 64,this cant go on its obvious corruption thats blatent, jail the bastards
IF THE TAXMANS AUNTIE HAD BALLS SHE WOULD BE HIS *UNCLE * IF IS ONE OF THE SMALLEST WORDS IN THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY WITH THE LEAST MEANING .SO WHY IS IT USED BY THESE SO CALLED PROFESSIONALS .
So basically council employees are held to a higher standard than a minister in government. That sounds reasonable 🤦
Right so the HMRC won't provide records to the Select Committee and Nadhim "I accidentally opened a shell company in Gibraltar under my Dads name" Zahawi must provide the records.
Yes, because unlike Zahawi this guy / HMRC are trying to act within the law.
His Dad must be decrepit, if he's actually alive! Zahawi Jnr is a deceitful crooked old pr!CK
It is NOT The HMRC.
HMRC stands for His Majesty's Revenue and Customs.
You cannot say The His Majesty's.
@@stephfoxwell4620 you said it twice... so it seems, you in fact... can
not going to happen anytime soon.
Billions being avoided and evaded and it's us plebs whose taxes are being increased to make up the short fall. Public services being cut rather than the government just loopholes and making sure the super rich pay what they're legally required to pay.
It should be compulsory, in the name of transparency, that all MPs and especially Ministers make their tax returns publically available.
With annotations that highlight when their money is sent to tax havens, funnelled through legal loop holes etc.
@@darkangel686868 And another note saying which ones can be used for blackmail purposes.
@@TheWebstaff how could a minister's tax paid be used for blackmail, unless they are being criminal in their tax?
Shouldn't those in charge of where tax money is going be people without negative tax status?
In the past 3 years we have seen the largest increase in inequality ever in this country. They sent £700 billion to the super rich without putting in place any method to bring it back in.
Precisely.
I hope Labour changes this rule
Any other UK working citizen would be in prison for what this MP (who was a chancellor making everyone else paying taxes) has done... This is disgusting that he can get away with it... Not even sacked... What the heck!!!?
No you don’t know what your talking about, hmrc are to collect tax they told him he owed money and he paid it!
@@TheJbsportstechhe does need investigating as to why he hadn’t paid it though. Such a large sum was clearly not a mistake so how did it happen is the next question which the police should now be investigating.
HMRC defines "carelessness" as errors made which cannot be attributed to an honest mistake.
Tbf, it's obvious that he is uncaring?
Onop
just rememebr it for whenever they come after you next.... seems to be quite a valid excuse
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
-Frédéric Bastiat
See also "The best way to rob a bank is to start one."
I submitted a self-assessment to HMRC back around October. They told me that I owed £1.40p. Since then I’ve had 3 phone texts from them reminding me that I had until January 31st to pay arrears or I could face a penalty! Different rules for different people?
Have you paid it yet?
Tell the Daily Mail, you'll be on the front page as an harrassed freedom fighter and libertine...
@@1inchPunchBowl Yep! Through the Government’s ‘user friendly’ website. What with registering, sorting out passwords, etc., that’s about 40 minutes of my life that I’ll never get back! (Thought I’d better pay it in case I’m ever offered a place in the Cabinet).
Off to the tower of london for you, miladdo.
why havent they recovered that through your tax coding?
My take away is that there is no evidence of the minister attempting to take reasonable steps to provide a wholly accurate tax statement.
So, by either direct fraud or incompetence the minister lied to HMRC, and should resign.
Your takeaway was well deliverude.
Should be criminalised. Prison sentence.
It is ridiculous that egregious examples of tax avoidance isn't in the public interest to be revealed ESPECIALLY if it's a politician or person in authority...
Or the boss of the department that would need to investigate them...
Tax avoidance isn’t illegal. Tax evasion however, is.
The loop holes have been created by the ppl using them. The general public are screwed. Agree, it’s completely bent.
Tax avoidance is not a crime, indeed, it is widely permitted
Though the payment of the tax and a penalty rather indicates that this was not avoidance.
We just need to know why the HMRC thought it was appropriate to give such obvious intentional tax avoidance the benefit of the doubt?
There is no way anyone else would view this as a careless mistake. They must think we are all fools.
The mistake he made was purposely trying to avoid paying in the first place.
It all comes down to evidence. Actually getting evidence to prove that it's been a deliberate act, enough for said evidence to stand up in a court of law, is exceptionally difficult. So even if they know there's wrong doing, if their case isn't strong enough to prove it's deliberate, then all they can do is fall back to the next stage which is careless.
Careless for HMRC is the language they use for "not an honest mistake". The more capable the tax payer the higher the standard.
Careless is what they call breaking the rules when you should know better, i.e. lying on your tax returns.
They don't say illegally avoiding tax, they call it "carelessness".
They also can't call people out for lying about taxes. So they are obligated to stay silent while Zahawi lied in interviews and in parliament.
Not saying you shouldn't by angry, just that HMRC are following the rules.
Crap rules, but followed.
We need tax reform which doesn't protect the wealthiest from paying their fair share. No chance of that under Sunak.
@@Sciopticl just to add to your point that in court the burden or onus of proof changes depending on the appealable decision. For tax assessments that burden is with the taxpayer and for penalties it is with HMRC. Based on the balance of probabilities it isn't easy to prove deliberate behaviour even if it seems obvious. The fact a Failure to Take Reasonable Care penalty was 30% highlights there were no reductions for telling, helping or giving, likely meaning evidence towards a deliberate penalty was thin at best.
@@theghostoftom & @1inchPunchBowl
Also it's not 'the' HMRC, as that doesn't make any sense in a sentence. It makes sense for other tax authorities like the US' IRS being THE Internal Revenue Service, but THE His Majesty's Revenue & Customs doesn't read right at all.
Apologies but it just irks my brain any time I read it. Hope you have a good day.
@@Sciopticl lol, Ok fair.
I just deal with so many acronyms I cease thinking what words they stand for.
It should be compulsory to TELL the PUBLIC when Politicians give out FALSE INFORMATION when there's questions being asked about possible crimes, lies or deliberate omissions.
I can understand why this guy wants nothing to do with it because these pricks lie continuously, so he'd have to organise a press conference quite regularly.
@@ZooHeretic MP's fair enough, but can we please specifically mention Tories who have taken it to another level? I'm sick of when Labour do something wrong, it's Labour but when the Tories do, it's "all MP's" that can't be trusted.
@@ZooHeretic That was in 2010, there's pretty much nobody else in charge who was there then. Look at the subsequent scandals and drop in every conceivable metric when it comes to quality of life since. I agree that Labour aren't the best right now but part of the reason for that is that Tories are so poor, they don't have to do anything. I also think they're frightened of the right wing tabloids, although that is sad.
It was Tories who sold off the trains (Thatcher) and the electricity grid (Major), which finds us in the problems we're currently in.
@@ZooHeretic What you say is fair too. I'm not some blind supporter of Labour and they've definitely had their fair share of issues over the years. I live in Australia nowadays but I do follow UK politics because I was hoping to eventually move back at some point, but getting less and less keen over the years (not that Australia is perfect).
It reminds me of something that Russell Brand said, not that I agree with everything he says, but on this point he was right - UK needs a political revolution because voting for the least worst of the options in front of you isn't very inspiring to me.
So it’s all run by the prime minister in the first place what can one say to this then !!! Flipping joke !!!
In Norway every citizens tax records are a matter of public record but they don't have tax havens and tax loopholes.
Here we not even know the tax of the PM before they get the job
social credit score light
Every tax law in the world has loopholes and tax havens exist around the world so Norwegians can use them - whether that is effective to reduce a Norwegian company's or individual's tax bill is a different question
Bo I Vesteralen.
This man says "as a tax payer".. Better he said , "As a "tax dodger"
had no trouble discussing Jimmy Carr and other celebs
I believe that the person who is concerned has many accountants working on his finances, how stupid do they think that the majority of people are? 😒
Margaret Thatcher relied onthe apathy of the British public as stated by her controller.
Apathy the killer of democracy .
Seems this government has taken that to a new level.
It is all too late the country is finished overrun with the worst. Kind of immigrants .
In just a few decades we have become like the sh.. hole these immigrants came from.
Accountants are thieves. Lawyers are liars.
Someone said that.
He's only got caught due to a journalist who found one slight error after doing a bit of digging. The truth is people like him do this sort of thing all the time so keep the rules in favour of all this. On the other hand 'benefit fraud' is black and white. Whilst paying taxes is black white and 'grey'
Creative accountants you mean 🤣
Some of the biggest accounting companies have been convicted of some very dubious tricks for their clients, only million dollar clients of course 😎🤔
He wasn't just an MP he was the Chancellor!
This government is utter cringe. Next we'll have an education minister who can't read. The Brexit Loyalty Cult got rid of competent boring people (May, Hammond, etc) in exchange for bullies and lunatics - Gove, Rees-Mogg, Williamson, Bravermann, Raab etc.
Education minister who was unable to spell or do maths you mean ?! 😂
Truss: ua-cam.com/video/OaZsuh4noa0/v-deo.html&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
Certainly can't argue with that.
absolutely Jeff. Boris culled the brains and people of real worth and education, and replaced them with the unqualified, inept, and self-serving ideologues.
scum by any other name....lol!
I can. May and Hammond, competent really.
Zahawi didn’t accidentally put his shares in an offshore company. He did it for a reason. That’s blindingly obvious
Anyone receiving public money should be as transparent as glass and since all politicians are paid with public money I should be able to watch television with them standing right in front of me.
Means-test the rich when it comes to public funds.
If an MP is a multimillionaire does he really need to claim for a pint of milk on expenses ?
I've noticed that when it comes to politicians, there are no direct answers to direct questions. Listen to this waffle!
He isn’t a politician. He is a civil servant. He isn’t responsible for bad rules. He may well challenge them privately
@@oystercatcher943 I didn't say anyone was a politician. Please read my comment again.
Sleaze. The Tories are terrified of that word. Use it more. And don't forget Bojo's dodgy loan. 👍
It's not just the Tories there was a labour woman today but I can't remember her name . They are all the same .
@@paulwainwright6903 Usual deflection tactic from a Tory supporter. We are concerned about Tory sleaze because they are the party in power
@@Alan-xxxxxx so you think the rest are white than white ? I have voted Tory, Brexit party in the European election and now I will vote reform because they talk sense and have people from every background most importantly they use something like common sense ( sounds to me like you haven't got any of that either from your comments) . Are you going to be a labour sheep then ? God help us if they get any where near being a government.
Sunak will neither confirm nor deny whether he sent in his 2021-2022 tax return in late and whether or not he paid an HMRC penalty. Why not?
It's not due till next week, so he'd find it difficult to have sent it in late.
Did you mean 2020-21?
If you're a benefits cheat you're front page news.
There's even a hotline to grass people up.
Why is taking from the public purse treated differently and more secretive when it's tax avoidance by sharp practice ?
The class system working in perfect order .
so paying tax to the country is a secret WHY
But Wayne, Dodging taxes is a privilege conferred upon the ruling classes.
By the ruling class.
Yes. It is a confidential matter
Asking questions is getting a bit pointless…
What do they hope to accomplish by pretending to grill these criminals!! 🤬🤬
Well said Andrew.
More lies?
its just a game. they're so invested in their roles the fail to see they're just part of the same system allowing all this to happen
These investigation are a clear attempt to make it look like 'lessons are being learned' while simultaneously kicking it into the long grass, biding time until people's anger subsides and things continue to go on as normal. Unfortunatly for these grifters, public consciousness is gradually changing. Its no coincidence that the right honorable member for Islington north's tax reform policies were met with a smear campaign by msm and those in high places 💰 💰 💰
Why is the head of HMRC a criminal?
They hammer the peasants and just forget about people who owe millions... No bias there then HE HE HE HE We have been shafted by the government and politicians every year since they started this government idea!!
Point 2 if the HMRC know someone is publicly lying about their taxes, they won't do or say anything about it. Mr Harra is frustrated by this.
It is not The HMRC.
That is bad English.
This confidentiality serves those who have something to hide.
How refreshing to be reminded of the professionalism of civil servants.....athough: The government has been accused of losing "staggering amounts" of money for public services "through incompetence" after a report found £42bn is owed to HMRC in unpaid taxes.
He basically took ages to say that it's one rule for cabinet ministers and MPs, and another rule for the general populus. 🤣🤣🤣
Johnson has shown that the way we/they run this whole country is beyond a joke!
30% fine is HMRC saying he’s a crook but we can’t be bothered to drag it out and through the courts. 30% fine is huge
No it’s a sensible public decision, do they spend 1million in a case of tax evasion if they believe it is or do they collect fine him and he pays 5m quid, which is Bette r for the tax payer think about it!
The lady behind him sleeping for most of the time? She is right.
In the last two years there have been many ministerial cabinet appointments with the Tory musical chairs circus, and not once did the PM (whoever's turn it was at the time) contact HMRC to check if the ministers tax affairs were in order?? HMRC are saying its not their job to flag anything, even if they hear the lies being spouted publicly by MP's about their tax affairs?? Personally I think if you are an MP your tax affairs should be made transparent to the public, as a matter of trust. If you are not prepared to have your tax affairs public, then you don't become an MP, its as simple as that. I also think MP's tax affairs should be vetted regularly by an oversight department. If an MP doesn't feel this is fair, then they have something to hide from the public and shouldn't be in office. I'm tired of this corruption, and these self-serving greedy shysters.
Well said ! They certainly are "greedy shysters". Also these MPs always give themselves a big pay rise regularly whilst the rest of us have to keep the same wages for years despite massive inflation and rising prices. It's disgusting behaviour.
Nice to see somebody in front of a committee that comes off as competent and ethical. How refreshing!
Agreed but, pity he couldn't answer his own questions. He probably would have started crying if he had.
This is all just for show. They’re gonna just forget about this and hope we do too, they’re all at it so they’ll do nothing about it.
Well, you got that wrong didn't you?
Do I think this Man expected to be in the public view so much a month ago, No. Did he nail it, Yes.
How refreshing that the answers given were very full and no attempts to evade or avoid giving full responses to questions. Politicians should be required to be equally open in their replies!
Are you all angry yet or....? Whats it going to take?
Bloody boiling!!!
Do something Casper, citizen's arrest and take Nadhim to the wicker man, Sarah will get the burning torch.
There was nothing 'careless' about Nadim Zahawi's actions. This is just an old-boys club taking care of their own.
If you've nothing to hide you've nothing to fear
Whereas with something to hide you get lawyers to threaten investigative journalists.
Zahawi to come clean can specifically direct all data held by HMRC to be disclosed.If he does not grant unreserved disclosure then that would thereby infer guilt
Strangers to the truth.
I'm surprised Zahawi hasn't blamed this on Putin yet
No it was the fault of Brexit!!
If you are in public office your tax records should be public. Not complicated …their actual salaries and expenses are public information anyway. Surely it’s in public interest what other financial affairs they have ?
Yes. It’s supposed to be true for US presidents except Trump! Should bring it is here for all ministers at least
In short Parliament can if they choose require potential MPs or Ministers to waive their right to tax privacy. They currently choose not to make such a requirement.
The 'gaining compliance' relationship with 'tax payers' who pose ' a risk' is a joke.
This is not a cover up but a stick up. This is like the Bank Robber and the Bank Manager having an arrangement with the Insurance Company on how much was stolen.
Lol it's the prisoners running the prison this is pointless they always get away with it
So in no uncertain terms of Zahawi had made an honest mistake after diligently filing his taxes he wouldn't have been fined. So the fine was the result of either negligence in paying and reporting, or outright deliberate evasion. There's no IF or BUT, that is the law.
Ministerial code 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 I thought that went out with the stone age. Mistakes don't get fined, so should the guy who was Chancellor be careless with his own finances ? Tax advice seems to be little people pay , rich people it's open to negotiation.
Zahawi did not make an innocent error. So is not innocent.
He did not do what a reasonable person would do.
He is therefore unreasonable.
By paying the commensurate fine he has accepted his culpability as a not innocent, but unreasonable man.
This means he was not fit to be Chancellor and is not fit to serve in the Cabinet.
Wow this politician can actually phrase and pose simple short questions and then wait for the reply without interrupting.
How long must the ordinary citizen put up with these quasi criminals manipulating and mis appropriating the wealth of this nation ?
So when does careless become criminal? Would it be if one didn't have the funds to pay the tax deficit and the penalty for doing so?
If so, is it a case where you're only a criminal if you're skint?
From the answers given by the member of the HRMC, if its a general member of the public, then we're in s--t, but if you're someone of authority then its ok. Even if that person is economic with the truth about their tax affairs.
'There are no penalties for innocent tax errors' is surely the killer statement.
Zahawi was given a penalty, therefore his error was not innocent!
Interesting. Harra seems to be an incredibly competent, honest and lucid official. His evidence was fluent, coherent, impressive and comprehensive and this testimony certainly helped restore some of my faith in the Civil Service. I'm not suprised he's reached the very top of HMRC.
Of course, Harra is bound by strict rules of confidentiality and disclosure and his replies to the questions posed were fully answered within the bounds of his own competence. He's a trained lawyer, a very senior and experienced tax expert and highly respected and long serving senior official in HMRC.
I can't say the same about the Cabinet Office, or those who sit over it, especially the current mob of gangsters.
I also thought that the questions posed by the Select Committee were balanced, probing, fair and very appropriate to the current situation. Clearly, "carelessness" is not something to be brushed off lightly - it can and did result in a penalty. A very large penalty in the case of Mr Zzzz... Further penalties would be a matter for the courts, and if the current tax laws need strengthening in order to cope with today's unprecedented levels of dishonesty and corruption, then it's up to Parliament to legislate accordingly. Clearly, the current rules on Ministerial disclosure on appointment are too weak to cope with the apparent "carlessness" of MPs these days - the Select Committee appear to have acknowledged that.
Why are convoluted offshore tax structures not counted as negligence for making someone's tax affairs more opaque and complex leading to "mistakes" being more likely?
Doing this makes it more likely that the person is "careless" and misses something yet their deliberate obfuscation is being used as plausible deniability.
Wasn't Boris Becker jailed for less than this?
@Retired Bore Becker was jailed in the UK, not Germany
No, he filed for bankruptcy and he hid assets that had a value for his creditors.
Zahawi went on tv for months denying any wrong doing , yet here we are fined and still walking the streets . Lester Piggott was jailed for far far less of a sum . One rule for them people !!
This guy’s a pro. Glad that HMRC is run by someone who clearly has proper ethics, unlike a lot of MP’s.
Jim is virtually the only HMRC Board member who is a career Tax Inspector.
He got there cos he is Northern Irish so ticks a convenient box.
But gladly he knows his stuff and is a genuine bloke.
Yes he comes across very well and knows his subject. I am impressed for once !!
MPs (especially Government MPs) should make their tax records publicly available.
For the sake of transparency and accountability.
"If they've nothing to hide...."
As a novice it seems to me that the HMRC has a two teer set of rules. Pick off the easy targets the small business man or woman and pussy foot around the rich who may be potentially defrauding the system massively. The rich can employ expensive lawyers the poor can't. In the case of a very short lived chancellor I would however give credit where credits due and say well done to HMRC for exposing this careless behaviour.
Lot of hate in the comments for a professional simply explaining the way they work. There's nothing wrong with anything the HMRC boss said. He wouldn't routinely disclose details of someone's tax affairs publicly, regardless of who they are. That's a good thing. If people want change around people's tax affairs (specifically, re: people in public power) then they should be asking that of the Government. I feel like the HMRC held themselves to a good standard and followed it.
that's a good thing for a crook like zahawi indeed
@@t-zero8880 It's also a really good thing for every single other person in the country. You can hold the same standard to people's healthcare information - do you think everyone should know all of someone's private information regarding their health? What if they're in public office? These standards exist for a reason - so that everyone can be treated equally. Yes, I realise the system falls down because there's a lot of corruption, but that doesn't mean the system itself is intrinsically flawed, just that some people are scum (like Zahawi).
Non disclosure is set up to protect the rich not paye we all pay our tax and don't need non disclosure.
@@jimmydoyle7904 it's not about if you pay your tax or not. It's about privacy concerns. People not paying their tax should get caught (and if found to be deliberate, fined) but that doesn't mean I have the right to know their financial details.
Keeping tax records private. Is a useful tool for people with money to act illegally or immoraly. I sure mine would be handed over immediately. Lets make them public.
A will is in general a matter of public record. I would have thought that publishing the tax records of every member of parliament is not too big an ask. It’s not as though any of them are on PAYE and the forms have to be filled in any way.
Off shore entities and trust funds only exist to avoid tax , corporations make no profit in the UK entity because the offshore entity has weirdly a management and consulting fee that matches the profit . Only employed people pay tax and I think there are legal ways around that one too . A man in his position didn't get there by not fully understanding tax law and how to bypass it , it's more likely that he was advising his accountants on how to do it .
At last - someone who appears before a select committee who knows their stuff and can answer questions. Well done Jim. On Zahawi he could afford top advice. Either the person advising him is a crook for giving him dodgy advice or Zahawi is a crook for ignoring the advice. From Jim's testimony if Zahawi had been wrongly advised he would not have received the penalty.
Every Tax Advisor is just one step away from breaking the law, so many people have been caught using schemes and loopholes to avoid paying what's due, to be totally honest I would do the same, if I could avoid giving cash to a government who will waste it, sending it abroad to people who don't want it or hate us, I would love to pay tax and know it was going to fund the services, NHS, travel networks, social care. Things we will use and may rely on one day, not funding scams, furlough cash handouts, dodgy green energy schemes, special payments for PPE we cannot use or has expired.
Accountants have no professional standards.
“Gentlemen, of course my former boss, Mr Zahawi, is blameless in this matter. It was merely an oversight”
Just log off mate you clearly don't have a clue
@@SplashTasty wow, edgy (and ironic)
They should have just asked him to wink twice if he feels like answering these questions would put his employment / life in danger.
Get rid of this barsteward!
The longer it goes on, the redder this mans face becomes...
Criminals in charge
He’s up to his neck in it! He knew it wasn’t right and did nothing! 🤬
There is no way this was a quick case. Investigations (he was found out, not disclosing liability), negotiations and settlements take time. He took up office and swore that his affairs were up to date when clearly they weren't.
Surely the length of time that a "tax payer" has been making "mistakes", may be an indicator in of itself as to whether it was careless or negligent.
"Integrity of the honours system..."
🤔
Wow. I just didn’t know how the new season of “The Tory Party” was going to go.
I didn’t think the writers could sustain the drama after the Liz Truss and Boris Johnson plots. But once again they pulled it out of the bag. I love how instead of focussing on one main character they have weaved together a load of corruption subplots.
All MPs taxes should be public knowledge as it’s us that put the crooks in these jobs
Jim Harra just destroyed Zahawi's political career.
Three cheers for the unloved Taxman.
HMRC cant even get my address right and refuse to change it. What a waste of space.
Why is she asking the same question over and over? He's not going to tell you about Zahawis taxes.
MPs are a bit thick.
Jim Harra is a career Tax Inspector who knows his brief.
Because she is envious of certain people who have millions and pay millions in tax
@@TheJbsportstech I think it's a legitimate point. If this hadn't come to light as a result of one man's diligence then he could lie about it with impunity.
That's insane. There should be a mechanism and an obligation to disclose such matters for those who hold high office.
If it was intentional, it's bad.
If it was a careless mistake, it's bad.
A chancellor who blunders over millions in Tax? There's no way out of this!!
Who are all these people that just sit and listen to this absolute carry-on?
All the tax money misused, not paid, stolen etc should be repaid in full by every Tory MP who has committed such an act, or they should go to jail.
The corruption is rife right through the tier
Yet, once more, rules for them and draconian rules for us peasants
spot on
What a 'cop out' by the HMRC chair. Tax affairs may be a private matter, BUT the 'Public Interest' outweighs the principle of 'confidentiality' when suspected wrongdoing is alleged!! The only way to maintain public confidence and transparency, is for full disclosure to be made by HMRC in this context. The truth must be known to all. Failure to do this, only leads to more suspicion, more anger, that the wealthy are protected from wrongdoing. Requiring 'Consent' is simply a barrier to prevent the truth from being exposed. People who have done nothing wrong would happily consent for the avoidance of doubt.
Here we go evrryone else in the chair....but not Zahawi himself
Slippery git.
Remember Sunak’s first speech where he promised to lead his government with integrity, professionalism and
accountability at every level. What an absolutely disgusting vile joke. There should be complete transparency on MPs earnings and tax affairs,
instead of that we now live in this shady underworld of shell companies in Gibraltar and using Non Dom status, a philosophy which stems
from the very top. The Norwegian government government are light years ahead of us in terms of honesty and transparency.
Discretion to not share taxpayers details is understandable… that of course requires them to be taxPAYERS!
I worked with 2 people who weren't PAYE like myself and they used an umbrella company (legal loophole). They were hounded by hmrc to pay what they allegedly owed and it certainly wasn't in the millions like the minister in question. They were normal working people who didn't have the means to fight the decision. One paid it and the other didn't.
That's the definition of tax avoidance, and why IR35 was introduced.