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Vince Cable and the VAT man: a case for the defence
October 27, 2011 1:37 PM
• [Oct 27] Michael White writes: . . TODAY is Defend Vince Cable Day because the business secretary is being accused of hypocrisy and worse by the Sun over the disparity between his frequent attacks on tax evasion (illegal) and tax avoidance (legal, but not always nice) and his own failure to register freelance earnings for VAT until the error was spotted and rectified back in February.
I hope what follows is an educational initiative for those readers, the stroppy, vocal ones whose default position is that MPs and ministers (local councillors too) are either fools or crooks, very often both. They're ruining the country, wasting taxes, selling out to foreigners (including those notoriously foreign Scots) and should all be sent packing (etc) . . Amid the usual snarling voices some posters on the Sun's own website ask how this information leaked out from HMRC. A good question which won't be answered. But evidently decent people in public life attract special hostility in some quarters. In 482 BC the Athenian politician Aristides was exiled from the city with the help of a voter who complained (to Aristides himself) that he was fed up with hearing the man referred to as "Aristides the Just".
That voter's descendants are busy in the blogosphere . .
• Vince Cable and the VAT man: a case for the defence [Guardian Oct 27]
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