Tax avoiders will receive coronavirus bailouts – we must redress this injustice George Turner
over 5 years in The guardian
Public subsidies will have to be paid back. If one industry deserves to collapse in this crisis, it is tax avoidance
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In a few weeks’ time, when British hospitals become overwhelmed by coronavirus cases, one group should feel a particular sense of shame: tax avoiders. In Italy, the recriminations have already started. In an article in La Repubblica last week entitled “The things I am learning”, Fabio Fazio, a leading TV journalist, wrote: “It has become evident that those who do not pay their taxes are not only guilty of a crime, but of murder: if the beds and the respirators are not there they are partly to blame.”
That particular lesson was quoted in full by none other than the pope in an interview with the same paper. Continue reading...
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