I don’t know what people are so upset about. She only failed to pay a little bit of tax. Hundreds of bankers and multinationals so the same and nobody says anything.
Oh wait… 😅
The real question is what would happen to an ordinary member of the public. If it‘s just pay the difference with a penalty fee, but nothing else, that is what should happen. You could argue the fine should be bigger because she should know better, but the law is the law.
It‘s only a problem for her job if she used her position to influence the outcome. It sounds like she didn’t.
Yes. The vaste majority of tax underpayments. HMRC Will assume it is an error. Only charging a late fee. Unless they are forced to take a person or company to court to recover money. Errors are not punished beyond late payment charges.
Some evidence of intentional tax evasion is required for more significant punishment to be applied. Even then it of course has to go via a court first.
If you’re right then I think Rayner should have been able to keep her job, as long as she paid the tax and any penalties for late payment. Rayner losing her job means that Labour have done the bidding of the right-wing press.
I supect that Starmer was happy to remove a possible rival. Rayner is slightly more leftish than the rest of the cabinet and less of a triangulating, tabloid-grovelling careerist zombie.
