This is a quite simply criminal tax fiddle which is taking place on a large scale within the Union today.

Or IR people to have a right to check their premises for evidence of tax fiddles.

So I’m not going to be involved in a tax fiddle in Monaco, it’s impossible.

If they Google my name all they can see is this case against me and 'tax fiddle, tax deal and tax fraud'.

'Harmless tax fiddle'

Famously, it was the lawyers who brought down Al Capone, getting Chicago's most notorious mobster convicted over tax fiddles.

Hermon announced that special squads of detectives would wage war against tax fiddles on building sites and protection rackets and extortion.

After decades in which corporate tax fiddles have mushroomed, and colossal amounts of criminal and kleptocrat money have sloshed through the world financial system, even limited progress is welcome.

"Tax credit fraud is not a harmless tax fiddle and today's sentence sends a clear message to others tempted to try and cheat the system that the courts take this crime seriously."

John Macmillan, detection manager for HMRC at the airport, said: "Selling illicit tobacco products is not a harmless tax fiddle - it cheats the nation of around £3bn a year.

Selling smuggled tobacco products is not a harmless tax fiddle - it cheats the government of revenue, which can be used to fund vital public services, and jeopardises the trading of law-abiding tobacconists."

By then, the signal should have penetrated the seven layers of the bank’s bureaucracy that tax fiddles, PPI, wheezes like Protium, and massive bonuses that come with the rations are no longer acceptable.

A court heard Jones had spent a fortune paying for his son Nicholas, 23, to race across Europe, running up 'enormous debts' and even remortgaging the family home for £400,000 before he embarked on the tax fiddle.

They'd worked out that this place - Albion, I mean - had been built by the ancient Atlanteans to separate the two magnetic fields, years before my time, and that they could use it for a sort of tax fiddle.

"Cameron's problem is too many of his team have become super rich by exploiting every tax fiddle … [We should] sweep away tax scams and everybody should pay tax at the same rate on earnings and other income."

The YouTube fiasco and backfiring tax fiddles, the “bottled” general election and vicious spin doctors, the dictation of immigration policy by television actresses, even the regicidal plots and resigning ministers, will shrivel under the aspect of eternity.