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Most people think that tax avoidance is morally wrong even if it is legal, a poll for two leading charities revealed today.
Four in five of those questioned said it is too easy for large companies to avoid paying tax in Britain while almost three-quarters said the next government should legislate to discourage big companies here from avoiding paying tax in developing countries.
Eighty-five per cent of the 2,052 adults asked in the ComRes poll for Christian Aid and ActionAid said they believe tax avoidance is morally wrong.
Just a fifth of people asked said they felt political parties had gone far enough in their promises to address tax avoidance by large companies.
ActionAid tax policy adviser Diarmid O’Sullivan said: “It is not just the UK that is affected by tax avoidance. The world’s poorest countries lose billions of dollars a year to tax dodging.”
