Synopsis
Tax avoidance is perfectly legal, but is it immoral? Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk with Matthew Taylor, Melanie Phillips and Clifford Longley.
- Programme: Moral Maze
- Episode: Tax Avoidance
- Channel: BBC Radio 4
- Broadcast year: 2012
- Sociology | How can crime and deviance be explained? | Theoretical views of crime and deviance, how useful they are in relation to social class, gender, age and ethnicity.
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