Just five days left for you to get that tax return done — or cop a £100 fine. If you’ve already completed the annual paperwork hunt and those finger-battering calculations, you may have been irked by the size of your bill. Let me cheer you up — you got off lightly compared with the 50 wealthy individuals or families who between them were liable for nearly £2bn of UK tax last year.
The super-rich are often castigated for not paying their fair share of tax, for deploying all tax avoidance measures at their disposal, yet the top 1% of earners are expected to yield 28% of all income tax receipts for 2017-18. These are the taxman’s best friends — those who make the inaugural Sunday
