if you want to deduce the cost of your doing business from the earnings you make then registers as a limited company and file your accounts. Mind you being married to someone who understands accounts, economics and a fair bit about how tax is calculated gives me a certain edge. most of the arguments and discussions I have seen around tax avoidance have me asking why we are not seeing the whole picture before the outrage. Why are we not shown how much business they poured into the UK , Staff Salaries paid, suppliers who generated income through working for those corporates , the NI payments and the Employers NI Contributions as well as the VAT calculations and payments made almost monthly. We have not seen those figures just the one. Its one point of data and I am shocked that so many are reacting to it without the context of the complete accounts and the values. The real question should be how come spending in the government has been so rampantly bad that they drive the country into Debt and can find no one to pay for it all. Between the Govt and the Media there is a huge push to be upset about this but I wonder if itsnot just smoke and mirrors that long term will screw us more than it benefits.