'A law that’s not publicly enforced may as well not exist. Only saints will comply with it. The rest – the people we really want to comply with it – won’t bother.
If we want to drive tax evasion out of the corporate world, we don’t need new rules – we just need to enforce the ones we have'!!!
Dan Neidle on the news that #HMRC hasn't made one prosecution under a law interned to punish the facilitation of #taxevasion...
#ruleoflaw #tax
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/20/a-tax-evasion-law-not-publicly-enforced-may-as-well-not-exist
Emeritus Prof Christopher May /
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