Please help- moral dilemma

moneyistooshorttomention

We can only judge by the effect. Many people reported to HMRC are reported for...errrm....rather a variety of reasons (quite often revenge..sometimes just out of a sense of "public duty").

However, the money all goes the same way....NHS/maintaining other worthwhile public services...and..oh yes...helping out those who definitely don't need it:mad: and taking part in whatever-the-latest-war-is:(.

That is rather by the way...

stator

bouicca21 wrote: »

I too have a moral dilemma. To what extent is it really right to report a suspicion (no evidence just conjecture) of tax evasion? My ex landlord was clearly employed and paying tax under PAYE. Given his general attitude, I doubt he was declaring the rental income. Do I report him or not? And given that I don't like him, does the suspicion of revenge destroy any moral ground that I might otherwise claim. Can narks really claim to be serving the communal good?

Yes, it is serving the greater good.
You could just write a letter to HMRC saying that he is a landlord and receiving rental income. If he's already declared it they will dismiss the letter. If he hasn't they will investigate.

kinger101

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Maybe I'm just spectacularly bad at putting over sufficient logical reasons.

Perhaps. I'd say your sneering attitude also makes people discount anything you say quite heavily.

Lord_Baltimore

Bart1 wrote: »

You need to look up the word friend

And, for balance, the word thief.

moneyistooshorttomention

Lord_Baltimore wrote: »

And, for balance, the word thief.

Absolutely:T

This is one of the things that is quite quite clear to me. The word "thief" gets used about someone who breaks into someone else's house or purse/wallet or similar. The thing is that there are many many forms of theft and most of them aren't compensated by claiming from the appropriate insurance company.

I've had "theft" theft before and duly got compensated by my insurance company for it. It did NOT help and I would much rather not have suffered the theft. However, there are many many forms of theft that don't come under the official heading of "theft", but they are theft still and all the worse because there is no payout for the monetary value of the theft.

Right now...the most immediate example that comes to my mind is the fact that a couple of times I have lost some gold jewellery (ie when it became detached from me whilst I was going about my daily business). I knew pretty much to a few feet where it had become detached from me and duly asked in the appropriate direction for it to be handed back to me (ie police in one case via their lost property office and another time it was my employer - ie because it had happened whilst at work). Neither time had my property been handed in - and therefore the person who picked it up was a thief, rather than a normal person.

Theft has many many forms and not paying your taxes is a form of theft.

I have been thinking on about OP's dilemma since they posted and do appreciate their concerns about the jobs this "person" is providing. However, the other side of that coin is the number of ill people who can't get what they need from the NHS because they are told the NHS cant afford it.:(

There are many personal opinions as to just what the NHS should provide and I have my own views as to reasonable limitations as to what can be expected from an NHS with limited resources. However, when you see someone denied treatment that appears very reasonable to expect (eg the Aricept drug for dementia treatment or someone having an operation that will restore them to normal health) then I do feel upset personally that that person cant have the treatment they quite obviously need/are entitled to because the NHS are saying they cant afford it. Yeh...yeh..and then we go on to gastric band operations/IVF/etc/etc which are very much personal choice things - but I think we can all agree people should have what they obviously need when it comes to dementia drugs or some little kid having the operation they need to be able to walk and the like.