FINANCE

White Van Man on . . . the Panama Papers

I’ve got no time for these billionaires, politicians, Arab Sheiks and drug barons salting their stack away in Panama but if you ask me we’re all playing the same game – and rightly so since tax has got out of control.

I've got no time for these billionaires, politicians, Arab Sheiks and drug barons salting their stack away in Panama but if you ask me we're all playing the same game – and rightly so since tax has got out of control.

I mean what's the difference between these Panama geezers and a chippie doing a job and asking for cash so he dosen't have to declare it, or a man and his van heading over to Calais to buy 500 bags of Old Dutch Shag to flog off in his town centre, or a soccer star investing his loot in a ‘film' which just happens to be a tax loss.

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