""And your suggestion is perhaps that non-disclosure is not tax cheating? Or what, exactly?""

My suggestion is perfectly clear to anyone who bothers to read what other people say, rather than skimming and deliberately affecting to misunderstand.

The hiding away of undeclared earnings (if earned within the jurisdiction of the UK tax system) is tax evasion, and therefore already illegal.

""If the system wasn't massaged, and the fiddles weren't fiddled (and the evasion didn't happen) there'd be a massive tax surplus to fund the NHS and education and to put benefits up to levels where there was no need for the benefits fraud that in total costs an insignificant fraction of the tax not collected.""

You still have not the bals to respond to my charge that you had nothing whatever to say about this during the thirteen years in which the Labour government ignored it, but foam at the mouth because the Tory government hasn't stopped it in seven months.

You accuse me of putting up Aunt Sallies and straw men, yet you exhibit many of the attributes of a diehard hypocrite.

Don T.