From today’s Guardian:
The Taxpayers’ Alliance, a campaign group that calls for tax and spending cuts and claims to represent the interests of taxpayers, has admitted one of its directors does not pay British tax.
The Guardian has learned that Alexander Heath, a director of the increasingly influential free market, rightwing lobby group, lives in a farmhouse in the Loire and has not paid British tax for years…
“The least we can expect for an organisation that purports to represent the interests of British taxpayers is that it is run by people that pay British tax,” said Jon Cruddas MP.
You can read the full story here.
Follow @LibDemVoice on Twitter
Like us on Facebook
Subscribe to our feed
Sign-up for our daily email digest
The Sun story about Chris Huhne that was a total invention (and which the other papers happily copied)
11 Liberal Democrat MPs vote for registrars to be exempt from marrying same sex couples
How Liberal Democrat MPs voted on same sex marriage amendments
Same sex Marriage: another Liberal Democrat victory
Opinion: Why Lib Dems should support the Referendum on the EU – and let’s have it before 2015
Opinion: Referendum debate is a sideshow: the countdown to Britain’s real EU vote starts today
The Independent View: An invitation to ORGCon 2013: the UK’s leading digital rights conference
Baroness Judith Jolly writes: new Social Care Bill focuses on people not systems
Opinion polls yadda yadda. OR “Does Nate Silver mean nothing to you? Did he write in vain?”
Friends of Magdalen Green
Welsh Government more interested in fighting UK counterparts than helping people
We can be 'listened at' but not 'listened to'...Mathew Hulbert writes for The Guardian!
Just how open is greater manchester's police and crime commissioner?
Silence of the lambs and howling of the wolves
Woolwhich: The counter narrative
Ealing Council Finds Councillor Dennehy Guilty as Charged For Offensive Blog
Tope's Hopes
The Beach Boys Live: The 50th Anniversary Tour
Eddie Sammon
Paul Pettinger
Martin
A Social Liberal
9 Comments
He’ll just say `I’m doing my bit for Britain` of course if it was an organisation that wanted tax to go up he would say `how can he say that when he lives in France?`
The TPA are not tories, I know some of them well. They are too right wing for Tories; so this is just smearing!
hey what do you think of this?
http://cityunslicker.blogspot.com/2009/10/lib-dems-had-worst-uk-political.html
Talk about the most overblown headline – they’re insinuating that he is a tax dodger, then explaining in the article that he lives in the tax haven of, eh, France. Does the Guardian believe that no British group should have directors who live overseas? A ridiculous smear story.
Diddums. Poor tax campaigners cant see any issue with someone who doesnt pay tax in the UK campaigning on taxes in the UK. “Smear” stories eh? Diddums.
That would be from a report in the Guardian which made group profits in excess of £300 million last year and paid corporation tax of £0.00. Zero. Zilch. Nada.
£300m in 2008 came from the sale of an asset (a stake in autotrader that was sold). GNM made a pre tax loss of £89m this year http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/31/guardian-media-group-pre-tax-loss
Actually, there is another way of looking at this. If he is not paying UK tax, then he cannot be accused of benefiting from that for which he is campaigning.
That is a far more honest position than somebody campaigning to lower their own taxes, or campaigning to tax more to pay for public services they use.
Hmm, so maybe we should disqualify UK residents from standing and voting in UK elections, and let the disinterested French pick our government for us?
Tom: following your logic though, wouldn’t the honest position for him to be a director of the Non-Taxpayers’ Alliance?