‘Tax havens are distant and mysterious, and presumably up to no good. What better scapegoats could there be?’

'Germans are obsessed with paying taxes - they are affronted by any state with little or not taxation - such as the British Virgin Islands'

'It is profoundly irresponsible for priests, rabbis or imams to make excuses for breaking the law'

Britain's claim to be the world's foremost philanthropic nation is under threat under George Osborne's new reforms