What if clients ask: 'do you take cash?'

Times change, as do sentiments. In the 80s, comedian Ken Dodd was acquitted of tax evasion, after £336,000 was found in cash in his attic, said to be the proceeds of a cash-based approach to his working life, in which he was accused of having avoided paying tax in a career that, at that point, spanned 35 years in show business. Jockey Lester Piggott was jailed for tax fraud and stripped of his OBE, and served over a year in prison. Take the recent matter of Jimmy Carr and the K2 tax mitigation scheme. This clearly was not Jimmy Carr's idea; he has been advised to use the structure in the...