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Greg Wright – Yorkshire Post:

“Goodbye house; goodbye marriage, goodbye employability.”

Not my words, but those of a man whose life has been torn apart by the loan charge, a scandal which has brought misery to thousands of law-abiding people who acted on professional advice and had no desire to avoid their responsibilities as taxpayers.

Those affected by the charge include health professionals, who will probably be on the front line in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic.

…To quote a report compiled by the Loan Charge All-Party Parliamentary Group: “These arrangements were not entered as aggressive tax avoidance and were often a condition of employment, especially in the public sector.

“A substantial number of people however, especially in the public sector, did not know or understand that their pay arrangements involved loans.”

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