Jim Harra’s responses to specific questions asked by the Treasury Select Committee about the background to the Loan Charge are, at least in part, a masterpiece in Yes, Minister-style obfuscation. Specifically, the answers to questions 1–5 give only a partial picture of how disguised remuneration tax avoidance schemes were established and operated in the decade or more before 2010 and how HMRC failed to respond in that period.
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Jim Harra’s responses to specific questions asked by the Treasury Select Committee about the background to the Loan Charge are, at least in part, a masterpiece in Yes, Minister-style obfuscation. Specifically, the answers to questions 1–5 give only a partial picture of how disguised remuneration tax avoidance schemes were established and operated in the decade or more before 2010 and how HMRC failed to respond in that period.
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