The Anonymous Widower

Council Employees Tax Avoidance Schemes

I have been amazed for some years at the enormous salaries trousered by some top council employees.  After all, you can’t say that they do a creative job that adds value.  Now it appears that many of these employees are paid through companies to avoid tax, according to a report by the Public Accounts Committee.  The chair of this committee Margaret Hodge is quoted on the BBC as saying.

This is a tax avoidance scheme which is totally wrong. Where you are a public servant it’s not right you should be paid in a way that avoids tax

I agree! If George Osborne is looking for a place to raise money in the budget, he could declare these contracts illegal and raise perhaps a billion or two.

It would appear that my council, Hackney, is one of the worst offenders, with 39 employees being paid this way.

March 13, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | News | Hackney, Politics, Tax