I don’t know what people are so upset about. She only failed to pay a little bit of tax. Hundreds of bankers and multinationals so the same and nobody says anything.
Oh wait… 😅
I dont really get why this is seen as an issue. This is fiendishly complex law that can easily be missed, and the trust was set up to try and give a child their own “stuff” as divorce made the parents doing it impossible.
Thus is just a non story.
Id rather the press was asking about the idcards that starmer has gone and raised again. Or their mad plans to ban vpns(?)
Would you be happy then if the next Tory politician found avoiding tax said:
This is fiendishly complex law that can easily be missed, the trust was set up to try and give my family stuff.
I agree this is probably been elevated as a story because of who she is, but I think it’s right that she gets called out for this type of thing. We shouldn’t turn a blind eye to tax evasion not matter how small. People need to pay their fair share of tax!
Right but they’re usually doing something complicated to pay less tax.
Getting that wrong and underpaying is much worse than doing something complicated to deal with a complicated family issue, and the advisors missing an incredibly tough point combining multiple specialities.
If it was a Tory they probably would have refused to resign and they would have kept their job.
Very true that people should pay their taxes, I agree with that. So maybe Rayner should have been allowed to pay the correct tax, and any penalties for late payment, and then she could have kept her job.
Probably a fair outcome if I’m honest.
However politically speaking Labour know they can bang on about “rich people not paying tax” as an election slogan. This, apparently, is such a powerful weapon in their arsenal that any insinuating that the Labour top brass are also tax evaders cannot be tolerated. If she was allowed to simply pay back the tax plus penalties then this blunts future use of the “rich people pay your taxes” weapon. It’s a shame really but that’s politics.
I don’t care if she owes 40k to the tax man. It has nothing to do with the job.
It undermines the whole system if the stewerds of tax income themselves evade tax. They can pass a law to remove a tax or add a tax but they need to pay as we have to.
It undermines the whole system when people who are guilty of greater crimes are able to harass people out of democratically elected office.
If she stood for election again with this now out in the public knowledge I’m sure she’d still win her seat without issue.
