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Hi Zoe. Thank you for your article but think you may be muddling tax and charity. Tax isn't charity; It's taken, not given. We don't have a moral obligation to pay additional tax but we do have a moral obligation to be as charitable as possible. No idea about Richard Tice but I'd hesitate to judge anyone's moral character by their tax return.

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Hi David. If grey areas and legal tax avoidance schemes were removed so that Tice was forced to pay more, would that make him a better person? If not, why does it make him a worse person for paying less? In both instances he'd be fulfilling the same moral obligation to pay what was legally due.