Why Jimmy Carr HATES tax loopholes | Room 101 - BBC

so what's upsetting Jimmy tax loopholes Frank so this isn't tax evasion this is tax avoidance so it's following the letter of the law not the spirit of the law and leaving up to us to decide how much we pay and I think it's a good idea I don't know all the detail I think that's been reported on it's like one law for rich people in one nor for everyone else it doesn't seem it doesn't seem fair and it seems to me they should make the law much clearer and much simpler to follow and it would be better for everyone I should probably mention I'm a recent convert to this view I had I'm not sure if you're aware but in 2012 I had a 50% pay cut and and this is when you know you've got a tax bomb if anyone's ever had a letter through from HMRC and worried about that thought that in the recycling know they will they will send another letter they're very good like that if on the other hand if the prime minister of the country that you live in breaks off from the g20 summit in Mexico and he comes out early to do a press conference where he talks about nothing other than your personal tax affairs that is gonna be a problem no I know because that is what happened to this guy shall we go for a little walk down memory lane oh really I can't imagine any problem with that psychologically this is the then Prime Minister David Cameron some of these schemes where people are parking huge amounts of money offshore and taking loans back to just minimize their tax rates it is not morally acceptable and I put it like this think of all those people who work hard who pay their taxes and out of that post-tax income save up to go and see Jimmy Carr he's taking that money and stuffing it into something where he doesn't have to pay taxes that is not fair that is not right he's got a point what's your tickets that people have to save up significantly more now than they were [Laughter] I wanted to put this in was because I kind of thought obviously like the paradise papers then came out more more recently and the perception is everyone's doing this I mean the Queen I know unforgivable I mean she's on money if she wants more money she just got a photocopier thanks it's a with it's weird as well they're sort of you know that think of that you know David Cameron much as I'm that's his job to do that and I absolutely respect that but the fact that you know it's a large offshore trust in his family name that pays no tax you go on that's there's always gonna be a level of hypocrisy in this yes they're a little bit of you that was quite excited when he named you on the telephone it's nice to be on the news a new show it's called the news I don't know why there wasn't a lot of people like when I've spoken to accounts I spoken to a lot of people about this I've become something of an expert by accident and I sort of think it should be really simple and I solve really simplified my life afterwards and when why have I got a limited company just mental why I forgot that just get the money pay the tax and then fine obviously I should have done that earlier but it's a Mia culpa I did a bad thing and I hope you know although I didn't you know I didn't kill anyone because there's a very clear law on that the same law on murder are they killed loads of people welljust we leave up to you decide what you think is morally right that's your job I always thought at the time I thought ken dad must have been gutted because he was the go-to tax dodger comedian you heard Ken dog said right I mean he was on trial in Liverpool he was in court in Liverpool and they said to him why didn't you pay any tax and he said well it's the Inland Revenue and I lived by the sea you gonna do a Ken Dodd quote for every topic he's the absolute master that's quite an achievement the reason for putting this in there they could close all of those loopholes tomorrow they could you say we're not doing any of that we're not doing any of that if you earn money you pay 40 percent on it and that's it that's the law this is a bit like a burglar coming on the show and trying to put in windows you don't have to climb through them no I bet I mean that's that's the thing if you leave it up to people's morality you've got to understand there's quite a lot of people like me but I've got a morality that's flexible well then you know how much tax I say no no is that because you paid it all back yeah but I think there's a weird thing that people still think you oh maybe you got away with some no you don't get away with anything at all it's a it's an interesting thing that you go it's it's almost like the I think the government loaned me some money for a bit a quite high interest rate that's the way I see it very good of them I'm sorry to you've paid it all back because there's there's a pothole by where I live and every time I Drive through it I say to my partner Thank You Jimmy car [Music]

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Length: 6min 3sec (363 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 01 2019