Kids encouraged to inform on tax dodgers

[spudulike]

Just had a teacher ask if he can have a discount if he offers me cash for a connie job, had an ex high policeman high up in the met who now runs a private security firm and is seriously minted ask for a discount for cash. Watched him cringe when i said my partner was to honest to accept cash jobs. Had doctors Lawyers and Bankers all offer, for a discount for the privilage of me putting my ass on the line.

 

Seriously get asked all the time, usually give them a small discount if it's within the profit margin of the job and put through the books anyway. Usually the richer the more willing they are to evade taxes, just look at the amount of tax coca cola pay (or dont).

 

If my children were being taught to snitch on people at school I would have a lot to say about it, seriously worried what this country and government are coming to.

 

 

Thats how the rich get richer and keep hold of it!!

 

Think the Government should clamp down on those people that sit at home watching the Jeremy Kyle show with the only hard work involved is lifting that heavy remote and pressing those heavy buttons.

 

30 years of paying tax through the nose and seeing it wasted on skivers isn't the best incentive to keep paying in to the system!

[MWArb]

Just had a teacher ask if he can have a discount if he offers me cash for a connie job, had an ex high policeman high up in the met who now runs a private security firm and is seriously minted ask for a discount for cash. Watched him cringe when i said my partner was to honest to accept cash jobs. Had doctors Lawyers and Bankers all offer, for a discount for the privilage of me putting my ass on the line.

 

Seriously get asked all the time, usually give them a small discount if it's within the profit margin of the job and put through the books anyway. Usually the richer the more willing they are to evade taxes, just look at the amount of tax coca cola pay (or dont).

 

If my children were being taught to snitch on people at school I would have a lot to say about it, seriously worried what this country and government are coming to.

 

Agreed! Do they think we all just have kids and never talk to them??? My kids have been taught real values like manners, hard work and loyalty...

While teachers are asking this of children I find myself teaching my 14 year old son where places like Edinburgh are because apparently geography doesn't include world maps anymore... I have a child on the way and I'm sure gonna make a huge effort to bolster her upcoming education with plenty of real skills... everyone has at some time done the odd job for a favor or a small fee, trees or other i'm sure... ok rant over

[HCR]

As ever, a sensational headline completely misrepresents the facts of the story.

 

One lesson plan targeted at 14 to 16 year olds requires students to “discuss whether it is good to pay the tax we do, considering the benefits we receive. If it is good, then why do people try not to pay?”

 

It continues: “Show class the remaining factfile slides on tax evasion. What do students think of those who refuse to pay tax or try and defraud the benefits system?

 

“Can they think of any example they may have heard of in their local area?”

 

 

Pretty much every lesson plan at this level will ask the pupils to explore real life examples/applications of the topic under discussion.

 

Other than that it's a lesson about the tax system, it's merits (or otherwise) and how the public perceives it.

 

It is not, as the headline might suggest, a programme to develop schoolchildren as sniffer dogs to report tax dodgers.

[easy-lift guy]

ha ha ha, you wanna look at the massive farce in the states, one of the biggest oil companies made hundreds of millions in profit, paid no tax and got hundreds of millions in incentives/grnts/aid from the government! hows that work? lol

 

Tony, Corruption and kick backs exist everywhere, the fact that you choose to reference the states does not mean we're any better at it, were just a bigger

source and or target to shoot for:sneaky2: if you are referring to Exxon-Mobil

the Federal government routinely rakes the oil industry over the Coles via lease payments and many other taxes at the State level which I get to pay every time I fill up at the pump:thumbdown:.

easy-lift guy