David Cameron's father 'ran offshore fund that paid zero UK tax for 30 years'

is that libel or slander... i always get them mixed up ?

Libel is printed, slander is spoken but is also informally a synonym of defamation which libel and slander are types of.

Milibands dad used an isa which is expressly allowed and intended by Parliament. There is no loophole.

On the contrary Cameron's family exploited a legal loophole, unintended by Parliament to avoid tax, going against the spirit of the law.

Iceland's PM has gone over Panama.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35966412

Now then David, what's your excuse for clinging to office?

Iceland's PM has gone over Panama.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35966412

Now then David, what's your excuse for clinging to office?

You mean Parliament intended to tax every bar and street vendor in Panama City?

No?

Then what do you mean?

If the answer if well, it was owned by Brits. So is virtually every bar on the Costa Del Sol, and Osborne doesn't tax these.

The point is that tax has to have a territorial scope. We do that for businesses on the basis of their residency. Other countries tax in different ways e.g. the USA on nationality. Ultimately every country has to draw a distinction between those who are fair game for its taxmen and those who are the pickings of some other country's taxmen. There will inevitably be some people on one side of that boundary and others on the opposite side; but you can't just change that boundary because you don't like the fact that someone is on the other side of it.

This is becoming quite a tired argument. No matter how rigorous the legal frameworks, if you put thousands of highly paid City people onto the case, you will find loopholes. The problem is not the laws but the corrupted system where an entire industry is devoted to offshoring a critical part of our national tax base, to the detriment of all of us.

I think a simple response would be to remove citizenship from all persons caught engaging in such conduct and prohibit them from ever receiving any access to public services. They would, for example, not be permitted to drive on British roads. Similarly, we should prevent all the tax-dodging corporations from having any access to things like police and fire protection, taxpayer-funded motorway connections or subsidised airports. (which is all of them)

Calling for somebody to resign over something their father did? Utterly pathetic.

You're going to quite extraordinary lengths to justify tax avoidance. It's purposely finding and exploiting an unintended legal loophole to avoid tax.

I can recognize a loophole when I see one. What here was unintended? At the time this was done, no-one expected that the profits of foreign companies in which Brits had invested would ever be within the scope of UK tax.

You can't remove citizenship and leave people stateless, ask Francois Hollande.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/world/europe/francois-hollande-france-citizenship-terrorism.html?_r=0

I can recognize a loophole when I see one. What here was unintended? At the time this was done, no-one expected that the profits of foreign companies in which Brits had invested would ever be within the scope of UK tax.

You're serious suggesting a Prime Minister should resign for something that is unquestionably legal that his now-deceased father did?

****ing hell. Sometimes this country is absolutely bonkers.

You earn money here, you should pay tax here. Like everyone else. It's that simple.

I think the whole system would work better if they were and if that generally applied as a principle to all countries.

No, I wouldn't be any different. If nothing else you have to keep up if everyone else is doing it. That's the point. The law needs changing, it is impossible to stop people being greedy, the law just has to channel it in such a way that rational self-interest accidentally ends up helping wider society. However the law will not change as long as we keep being presented with and electing the sort of people who stand to benefit from these wheezes.

The very fact that if I got into power I would want to do everything I could to shut down tax havens - even if out of rational self-interest I was using the things myself - almost guarantees that I am the sort of person who will never be in a position to come to power. However jaded you may be you have to admit that this is a world gone topsy-turvy.

The trade unions, incidentally, used to be a route to influence for modest people with modest people interests but of course they made damn sure they killed that off.

My rant above is preposterous but it is absolutely no less than these cheats and liars who pretend to be serving the British public deserve.

I think most reasonable people view it as unpatriotic to evade tax at all costs, which is what those schemes are about.

I'm willing in the interests of leniency to drop that part of the sentence. However, it is too much to ask that public services continue to be extended to such people if they cannot be bothered to help pay for them.

and a supposed non-dom for tax purposes.

Good for him, income tax is too high