always seems to be the rich people that
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hi kevin uh yeah i mean tony and sherry
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blair didn't break any laws but if you
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hundred and twelve thousand pounds in
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stamp duty that you or i would have had
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i stress uh but it's the kind of trick
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you know when i saw this story the first
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well right politicians always say we're
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going to close the loopholes we're going
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to close the loopholes and yeah the
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loopholes never seem to get close right
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it's sort of a mystery why do they say
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you know when we see people like
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also david cameron george osborne nick
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and got multi-million pound jobs working
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if they're thinking after this i'm gonna
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think david cameron made about 10
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million dollars it might have been at
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greensville if they think well i'm going
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to make 10 million dollars straight away
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close tax loopholes for millionaires and
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billionaires i think this sort of tells
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they're probably not going to close
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these loopholes and you know it really
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makes me worry about what's going to
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happen well this is uh these pandora
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papers they come after the panama papers
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including the british virgin islands
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schemes saving them they're here saving
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rich people's tax system isn't it
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yeah you know i've been working in this
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sort of tax justice area for a while now
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and nobody works this area is surprised
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panama papers there was also the
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paradise papers in between i mean if you
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economists but also tax accountants and
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um they they pay for good tax advice
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revelation after revelation um
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it's not a surprise to people who work
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pay much lower rates of taxes than you
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service companies around the world but
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you know for example amazon doesn't pay
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very much tax here nor does facebook nor
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conditions difficult for them they want
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they're a big company's uh prospering
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here they employ a lot of people in
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other words they turn a blind eye to the
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taxation of individuals right and we
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government do it and um
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they often do suggest you know we need
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do business here um
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individuals who make enormous incomes
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and pay extremely low rates of tax often
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the net effect of what they do is they
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housing unaffordable to ordinary people
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um so you know i'm strongly trying to
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message the politicians that you need to
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do something about this because if you
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don't tax these people who are taking a
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20 25 30 grand a year who often don't
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emerges from this as frankly uh a crook
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to be honest with you and they say he
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wants but he won't um
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so yeah i mean we have a massive problem
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here and i just think somewhere or other
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something needs to be done about it gary
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wish we could have a lot longer to talk
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