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To Jeremy Hunt, Chancellor of the Exchequer

The Panama papers highlighted how the wealthy are able to use offshore businesses to move their wealth and avoid paying uk taxes. One example of this was ex-PM Tony Blair using an offshore business to purchase his house and avoid £312,000 in stamp duty. To put that in to perspective the average wage is circa £38,000 and therefore the average tax paid on income per year is circa £5,000 per year. So in one transaction the Blairs were able to avoid more in tax than the average person would pay in ther working life time. That is one example. Jacob Rees-Mogg MP has also used offshore companies to grant himself £6million in cheap loans from a company he owns in the Caymen Islands.

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If our law makers are taking advantage of the tax avoidance loopholes along with some of our best known celebrities, then we are not all in it together. Gary Barlow talks openly on investing in tax avoidance schemes with his Take That band members to the tune of £66million. Only when these tax loopholes are closed will we have money for better public services - more doctors and nurses on fairer pay and more police. Better help with fuel poverty and cost of living crisis. Maybe we could see foodbanks permanently closing as they would no longer be needed. The cost of living crisis should not fall on the poorest in society and it is time that the super rich pay their fair share in tax!

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