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Second Life for tax avoiders
TS was scoffing meat pasta with KPMG’s Sue Bonney the other day when the topic of the Second Life popped up. For the non-anoraks out there, Second Life is a virtual world where various dweebs create characters called ‘avatars’, who then go about making a living in this fantasy world. Yep, very weird, but apparently quite lucrative.
The fantasy world, of course, has its own currency and such is the popularity of this virtual space that people in the real world are prepared to stump up real, hard cash for the ‘lindendollars’ in the geek realm.
Anyway, it seems tax planners have seen some potential in this little set up (are we surprised), as has the Internal Revenue Service. So does this mean that HMRC officials are going to have to start creating tax warden avatars to track down all the virtual avoiders?
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