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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob
The article and my own conclusions are not saying that Livingstone has done anything outside the law in making use of a system that thousands of others use to avoid paying tax. The point is that Livingstone described people who evade tax as b*stard's, when he was doing exactly the same thing. Ergo, the man is either a complete idiot, which I don't believe for one minute, or he is what he describes others as being. Either way he is an hypocrite.
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I would describe a tax evader as someone who is dishonest, and is not declaring his true income. What you have described is using the system to pay less tax on his declared income. This is something businessmen have been paying accountants to do since accountants existed