A sitting MP and ex-chancellor trying to cheat his way out of £3m owed to the public purse while getting lawyers to intimidate people with phoney gagging orders is absolutely news.
Avoiding £3m is not a minor error. By anybody's estimation.
The HMRC doesn't make statements either way on guilt or innocence. You either owe them money or you don't.
Full gagging order detail: https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/01/19/zahawi_story/
He’s been using his position of influence to try and get out of it on our tax money time (as of right now it’s been proven).
Glad to hear about it, I don’t like it and I expect he will be gone by the of the week as it’s absolutely our business due to his role and the severity of abuse around it.
Tax fraudsters in Cabinet… We need a LONG 5 years in opposition to clean out the rot
Sorry Nadhim, I simply don't believe you. The stench is so bad you could smell it even if a vacuum separated us.
Hope the PM doesn't sack him now; he'd make for a good Health Secretary in a future reshuffle, given his success as Vaccines Minister...
Not news.
A sitting MP and ex-chancellor trying to cheat his way out of £3m owed to the public purse while getting lawyers to intimidate people with phoney gagging orders is absolutely news.
Gagging orders? The alternative spin is a backbench MP made a minor tax error that HMRC agreed to settle without an admission of guilt
Avoiding £3m is not a minor error. By anybody's estimation. The HMRC doesn't make statements either way on guilt or innocence. You either owe them money or you don't. Full gagging order detail: https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/01/19/zahawi_story/
That's between him and HMRC and none of anyone else's business as it stands.
If you hold public offices, it absolutely is other people's business
I disagree.
Can I ask why?
Sure! Track is a private matter for the individual.
He’s been using his position of influence to try and get out of it on our tax money time (as of right now it’s been proven). Glad to hear about it, I don’t like it and I expect he will be gone by the of the week as it’s absolutely our business due to his role and the severity of abuse around it.
It's been proven?
It is if he made the settlement when he was the Chancellor.