The recent disclosures following an investigation by the Taxpayers Alliance have highlighted the obscene rake-offs by certain individuals, some of whom have presided over less than successful regimes, while others have bordered on criminal irresponsibility.
It’s not the level of remuneration that necessarily sticks in the craw. I certainly wouldn’t take on a job of heading an out of control juggernaut. The fact of the underhand and extremely dubious ways in which the packages are constructed leave us all in no doubt that there is something very wrong.
Yet the powers that be have the nerve to criticise businesses who use legal methods of keeping their tax bills to a minimum. Still, we’re all in this together aren’t we? No, we certainly are not.
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