Music Industry Trust honours famous tax dodger

Really, Music Industry Trust? You couldn't think of anyone who actually pays their taxes to give your Award to?

Gary Barlow picked up the prize, and the MIT fawned all over him:

It’s probably true to say that, in what is already a remarkable career, 2012 has been like no other year for Gary. I can’t think of another artist who works with both Simon Cowell and Her Majesty The Queen; eventful is an understatement.

Funny thing, that: working with the Queen. A woman funded from central taxation, which Barlow goes out of his way to avoid paying. Let's give him a prize, shall we?

Gordon in the morning: Barlow garlands

Gordon is announcing this morning that Gary Barlow is being nominated for a Music Industry Trusts Award.

Hmm. Really? The Music Industry Trusts is going to give its prize to someone who has been accused of using music industry investments as a way to avoid paying their fair share of tax.

Are they sure that's such a good idea?

At a time when, say, music education in schools is being cut back couldn't the Music Industry Trusts find someone who isn't averse to helping out by not trying to avoid the taxes that fund services like that?

I don't often say this, but well done to Gordon Smart for revealing this scandal in the making. (I don't think that's what he thought he was doing, obviously.)