A central heating engineer certainly offered me a 'cash price'. For professional reasons, it would have been unwise for me to accept.
This neatly demonstrates the point about how difficult it is to stop tax evasion. Vast amounts are lost through the operation of this 'black economy' but short of making all heating engineers wear body worn video cameras or GPS trackers, it is virtually undetectable.
Well perhaps we could try by
Increasing the resources available to HMRC to enforce UK tax legislation
■ Stopping the practice of granting amnesties to those who hide their money tax offshore
■ Abolishing ‘non-dom’ status
■ Tightening the regulation of accountants, lawyers and bankers
■ Introducing public registers of beneficial ownership for trusts as well as companies, and compelling the UK’s crown dependencies and overseas territories to do the same
■ Mandating public country-by-country reporting for all publicly quoted companies
■ Publicly reviewing tax breaks for corporates and wealthy individuals
The very least the Queen should is to allow Brighthouse to use "by appointment"
Makes me chuckle how people seem to think the Queen has a clue what goes on.
Do you really think she even sits down and reviews her earnings, expenditure etc, let alone where it performs.