Actually, Don, there have been a number of tax schemes that turned on the limitations of the obligation of disclosure. And your suggestion is perhaps that non-disclosure is not tax cheating? Or what, exactly?

By deluding yourself (and ignoring the fact that in a redistributive tax scheme the government takes money from those better off than you and applies it for your benefit and in some cases gives it to you) you don't only disadvantage yourself but also all the other net beneficiaries of a society that did not revolve round dog eat dog.

The facts so far indicate that the Con-Dems have no wish to make tax work. And that's not surprising for the perfectly rational reasons I have set out above which you ignore, preferring to go after aunt Sallies.

Your attempts to define the disadvantaged by reference to me are irrational and futile.

Get it through your head - if those who ought to pay tax but evade or avoid it did pay that tax, there's be more money, lots more money, more than the benefits clawbacks ever look at, to pay for the NHS - which you and all of us need, for benefits and pensions which you and all of us need, etc, etc.

What we all have is a right to stop you harming society and many of us.