The Face of HMRC

My compliments to Moira Stuart (the face of HMRC) for taking steps to ensure that her tax bill is minimised.

Ms Stuart has set up a company that entitles her to pay corporation tax at 21% on some of her earnings, rather than income tax at up to 50%.

HMRC have taken action against people who use these arrangements if they deem them to be "disguised employees".

However, the Telegraph quotes a spokesman for HMRC:

"Moira Stewart works on specific advertising campaigns for HMRC. She is not employed directly by us so there is no question of disguised employment."

Ms Stuart replaced Adam Hart-Davis as the face of HMRC. Adam Hart-Davis, was booted out by HMRC in 2008, as I wrote at the time:

"It seems that the recent comments by Mr Hart-Davis about wishing that the tax system was simpler, and describing VAT as "absurdly complicated", has not gone down well with HMRC.

Mr Hart-Davis, for good measure, then called for a flat rate tax and said that the merger of the Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise in 2005 was a mistake. His rationale being that the two departments were too large to "slam together"."


Tax does have to be taxing.

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