Take out your wallet, Minister Halligan, and pay up

The tax scandal of the week is not so much the Paradise Papers but that we taxpayers have to foot the bill for the Waterford TD’s caveman interview technique, writes Clodagh Finn

I can’t have been the only self-employed taxpayer who paid and filed this week with a particularly acute sense of bitterness.

It feels like misguided foolishness to actually tell the taxman of your thrupence-ha’penny earnings when the Paradise Papers show how the rich and the powerful ride, roughshod, over the little people by squirrelling away their millions in offshore accounts.