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WHYS 30: Is tax avoidance morally wrong?

Tax avoidance is legal but is it morally ok?

Tax avoidance is legal but is it morally ok?

All week there's been talk in the UK about tax evasion, ever since the British comedian Jimmy Carr apologised for using a legal offshore tax avoidance scheme.

The K2 scheme in Jersey enabled him to pay as little as 1 per cent tax.

Today a senior Jersey politician says it should declare independence from the UK, after the UK government threatened to clamp down on its tax avoidance schemes.

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Wed 27 Jun 2012 11:05GMT

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