Yesterday the Evening
Standard published results of a survey carried out by BMG Research into
British attitudes to tax transparency.
They found that over 80% answered “yes” to their two
questions. The problem is their questions weren’t the best ones, and I suspect
the results are therefore less them meaningful.
With rhetoric like “publicly shame corporate giants seen by
many as cheating the country out of millions in tax”, the blunt
instrument of “they are all at it you know” seems at work here.
So can we glean anything from this piece? I think so.
