So why all the secrecy about tax and NI dodgers?

I bet next time I pop up before the beak (there has to be a next time my anger management equilibrium is defo starting to slip again) Manx Radio won’t be as discreet as they are in this story about firms dodging Tax and NI:

https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-business/well-known-companies...

Several were fined but none are named this is in stark contrast to if you are some poor soul who steals a few sticks of wood because you're cold as happened some years ago and finds the unfeeling obdurate gaze of Jane Hughes upon you. You get your name plastered all over the paper.

By the way if this was employees contributions that were ‘late’ its money deducted in good faith from workers pay packets. I dealt with enough instances as a Trade Union official of firms going to the wall with unpaid contributions that then landed the employees who had paid the money in the soup.

Why fines for offences like this either I mean even Al Capone got jail for income tax evasion. The amount of fine seems piddling as well a dozen firms and just £16000 contrast that with fishermen who catch a few scallops in the wrong place! Plus that’s front page news!

There are double standards on this Island as to how folk are dealt with and apparently also how their cases are reported - more sickening hypocrisy. Year of our Island my arse!

Image: Alphonse ‘Al’ Capone

Bernard Moffatt