Re: It is only a draft law
Not really. If you are found by police standing over a dead body with a bloody knife, you would have to "justify yourself" as well.
No, not in the UK. The courts would have to prove that you had done something wrong with the knife.
By which I mean: you have definitely done something that looks like a crime (tax evasion). Unless you can provide an alibi (the justification above) you look guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
Are you serious? You're planning to punish people just because they look guilty?! Maybe you'd like to waterboard them until they confess?
a good reason why they have £10m in a suitcase. The fact they possess it would probably be enough to go for handling stolen goods beyond reasonable doubt, because there is no reasonable way any person without a very high-paying job can lay their hands on £10m.
Outside of winning the lottery, or finding it abandoned in a taxi, you mean?
However they came by it is irrelevant, if they cannot be proven to have commited a crime, they cannot be punished for it.
If the law allows these companies to divert their taxes then the law is an ass and should be changed. Until it is the companies have committed no offence, however immoral you may consider their acts to be.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
