Britain’s White-Collar Cops Are Getting Too Good at Their Job
This seems to fit in with the UKs ambivilence towards tax evasion.<p>On the one hand whenever there&#x27;s another leak of all the lengths people have gone to avoid&#x2F;evade taxes (e.g. panama papers) the government will pledge to &quot;get tough&quot;.<p>But then when it comes to practical measures like reining in the tax havens which are used to hide the details of people&#x27;s finances, they seems to throw up their hands and say &quot;nothing we can do&quot; despite the fact that many of these havens have strong connections to the UK and there is a level of pressure that could easily be exerted by the UK government for more transparency.<p>The dissembling you see from government ministers when asked to explain why these tax havens are so popular for company formation if it&#x27;s not for tax evasion reason is comical.