If it cuts down on tax avoidance it could work.
Like you say, it'll never happen, though.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 10 Jan 2012, 13:03, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

I think the point is it'll make tax avoidance absolutely pointless.
The problem being is it'll be a tax on income only not on assets. So there will have to be something designed to sort that lot out.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 13:04, Reply)

Some people will always do their best to circumvent the system to protect their assets.
Perhaps we should just do more to tighten current systems.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 13:16, Reply)

Or start treating Tax avoidance like theft and sentencing appropriately

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 10 Jan 2012, 13:47, Reply)

Castration?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 13:49, Reply)

While I would like to see this
I'd settle for Someone who evades £1m of tax getting the same prison sentence (in a proper prison, not a Jeffrey Archer country club) and someone who steals it, non violently from a little old lady.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 10 Jan 2012, 13:56, Reply)