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The government prevented me from stopping tax avoidance


by Michael Meacher MP    
July 8, 2009 at 9:22 am

The need for a general anti-tax avoidance principle (GANTIP) to be enshrined in the British finance system is now overwhelming.

The totality of tax avoided by super-rich individuals and big corporations has been estimated by independent research at some £25bn a year, and even by the Treasury at up to £13bn a year.
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