The following
appeared at the start of a two-page article in Taxation magazine (6 June 2013):
“My name is Sarah Saunders and I am a tax adviser.
Clearly, I cannot be proud to admit this shameful fact; if I were appearing on
television I would be portrayed in silhouette only and an actor would speak my
words.
I was innocent once, but I was lured into dabbling
in tax while taking my degree. How could I have known that I was involved in
something immoral?
All the people I worked with seemed nice and
respectable; they talked about things like “professional ethics”. I had no idea
I was being inducted into a conspiracy to defraud the British People.”
Sarah then
references the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee’s insinuation that tax
advisers are part of “a Machiavellian evil conspiracy.”
Sarah’s article
concludes:
“We need to [be able to] say: “I’m a tax adviser
and I’m proud”. Perhaps we should organize some marches and wear some suitably
messaged T-shirts? Mind you, if anyone asks my profession at the moment, I
think I’ll claim to be something more socially acceptable; for example, a
traffic warden or a walking billboard”
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