Emphasis on social welfare fraud ignoring issue of tax evasion

JIMMY CARR, the comedian who made his career out of politically incorrect one-liners, found himself the butt of jokes last week after his “morally wrong” tax avoidance was splashed all over the papers.

He was torn to pieces by the panel of his own Channel 4 show, has been relentlessly heckled at gigs by fans, and an appalled David Cameron was even moved to denounce his creative off-shore accounting — until he was reminded of all of the Tory donors who availed of the same scheme.

Carr was laughing all the way to the bank after he channelled £3.3m through the Jersey tax avoidance scheme, paying just 1% tax by the time the money found its way back to him. His only decent joke, it seems, was on the British public.