//Where’s NJ when Zahawi needs someone to congratulate him on minimising has tax bill?//
NJ is here.
As bobbinwales helpfully and correctly points out, all of my musings regarding the duty of everybody to reduce their tax bill to the absolute minimum are always accompanied by “…required under the law” (or something similar). If Mr Zahawi has acted beyond the tax laws then he deserves all he gets (including the sack). I don’t know whether he has or not, but it seems odd that he has paid a considerable sum to HMRC when his “minor error” was pointed out. I also find it odd that a person who clearly has access to expert advice, should so easily fall foul of the law by way of an “innocent mistake” (like I would if, say, I had left one of my dividend payments off my return).
But as I said, I don’t know all the facts.