"We're all in this together." Are we?

[humbersloop]

All perfectly legal, and no doubt everyone has the right to maximise the benefits of their financial affairs.

http://www.guardian.c...ron-family-tax-havens

Which, apparently, the CBI now call tax management, not tax avoidance.

Are some of us more "in this together" than others?

[tonyav]

Depends how tory you are I think humbersloop.

[humbersloop]

It's the hypocrisy that gets me really.

[factor-fiction]

It's a difficult area. Is using an ISA, for example, or putting all your savings in the name of non-paying tax partner also tax avoidance/management?

[sandyRoe]

Yes, we are all in it together. Some of us are in it up to our necks while others are daintily treading their way through it in order not to get the soles of their shoes muddied.

[chaptazbru]

"We're All In This Together" - biggest joke of the decade !

[humbersloop]

Fair point factor, and one I did try to acknowledge in the op.

Isn't there a real difference though, between doing that, inside the UK system and open to us all, and systematically structuring tax affairs so they fall completely outside UK citizens' liabilty?