2012年翻译考试口译高级下半场第1篇:阅读
Andreas Whittam Smith: Sweetheart tax deals aren’t for the little people考试用书
Harry Redknapp’s problem was that he was a private individual and not a large company.
It was Harry Redknapp’s misfortune to confront one of the most poorly organised activities of government, the work of HM Revenue & Customs. At Southwark Crown Court yesterday, Mr Redknapp was acquitted of tax evasion. The fair and efficient collection of taxes is unfortunately in the same wretched condition as control of our borders, care of old people in hospital and defence procurement. It is something that the state doesn’t do very well. One of the HMRC’s faults is inconsistency in its treatment of different classes of taxpayers.
Mr Redknapp, the football manager, stood accused of receiving undisclosed bonuses. If that is what they were, they would have been classified as income upon which tax was payable. He denied the charges, saying the money was received for investment purposes and that it was unconnected with his employment. As a capital sum coming to Mr Redknapp for buying shares, no tax would beliable. In due course, there would be tax on dividends received, on any profits made, but not on the original capital sum.
Mr Redknapp’s problem was that he was a private individual and not a large company. The treatment of the first is rigorous, suspicious and uncompromising. Mr Redknapp had made it worse for himself, too, by opening up a bank account in Monaco. You can see the Revenue mind working here—celebrity, handling millions of pounds in transfer fees, living in a world of bungs, nods and winks, using a tax haven. To the Revenue, the conclusion must have seemedinevitable. And a good one to go for because of the warning to others a successful prosecutionwould have conveyed.
HMRC is under pressure itself. Earlier this week, it disclosed that the amount of unpaid tax written off in 2009-2010 was a monstrous £10.9bn. That is a colossal sum. But even £10bn plus is part of something much larger. At 31 March 2011, the Department was seeking to resolve tax issues with large companies valued at more than £25bn. So two weeks of trial at Southwark Crown Court for Mr Redknapp following five years of police investigation and preparation for a six-figuresum of money, at the most, seems out of proportion when many times that amount remains indispute with big corporations.
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