After the Jimmy Carr story broke, Ed Miliband said pretty much the same thing. He said that politicians should not discuss whether something is moral or not, they should decide whether they want to make it illegal or not. But it's not really a great defence. People do not criticise tax avoidance on the basis that it is illegal, they criticise it on the basis that they think that it should not be happening. As with everything, there are shades of grey - the Jimmy Carr scheme was pretty outragious and difficult to defend. Other forms of avoidance are more defensible. And a large part of our industry does not depend on tax avoidance at all, but people tend to overlook that.
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