A taxing situation (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

A taxing situation

8:12am Friday 19th March 2010 in

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SIR – The Government and the other (EU) coalition parties haven’t even sorted out their expenses scandal yet and we have another scandal brewing!

This time we have party donors giving money to them but not bothering to pay tax.

Harriet Harman claims it’s not a big deal really as no law was broken, just as no law was broken when MPs were claiming for 50in flat-screen TVs, non-existent mortgages and flipping their homes for profit. Will they ever learn? The Tories have finally realised that Lord Ashcroft is not paying tax, even though I have heard William Hague being questioned on this exact subject for months on various political programmes.

Mr Hague’s only answer was that he trusted Mr Ashcroft and that his tax status is his own business, I disagree, and as Mr Ashcroft is the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, I think this makes that everybody’s business.

Jason Smith, UKIP Prospective Parliamentary Candidate, Bradford West, Woodlands Avenue, Queensbury, Bradford