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  • "Not against the law but there it does stink when someone reduces their tax burden like this when they really don't need to.

    I must hurt to pay 50% tax but £3million a year after tax is still a lot of money.

    I wonder if Mr Carr makes use of the National Health, roads, bin collections etc and is happy that us middle-earners are paying to subsidise him?"
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I pay the tax I have to - Carr

9:56am Wednesday 20th June 2012 in National News © Press Association 2013

Jimmy Carr reportedly uses a Jersey-based company to minimise his tax liabilities Jimmy Carr reportedly uses a Jersey-based company to minimise his tax liabilities

Comedian Jimmy Carr has broken his silence over claims that he dodged tax, insisting: "I pay what I have to and not a penny more."

The funnyman is said to have used an aggressive - but legal - tax-avoidance scheme which enables members to pay income tax rates as low as 1%.

Carr, who has famously lampooned fat cat bankers, reportedly protects some £3.3 million a year by channelling cash through Jersey-based company K2 which then returns the money in the form of a loan. This is not subject to income tax.

He spoke out amid claims that members of Take That - Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Mark Owen and their manager Jonathan Wild - invested at least £26 million in another scheme run by Icebreaker Management Services.

Carr was confronted over his own financial arrangements during a show in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Challenged by a member of the audience who told him "You don't pay tax", he replied: "I pay what I have to and not a penny more", The Times reported.

It came after he appeared to make light of the furore surrounding his payments to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

He asked: "Got through the papers? I haven't really been through the papers today. The Murdochs are after me..."

Carr is said to be one of more than 1,000 beneficiaries who shelter some £168 million from the taxman each year using K2.

A Revenue and Customs spokesman said it had successfully challenged an avoidance scheme run by Icebreaker 1 LLP, winning on the main arguments in the tribunals. HMRC said the K2 scheme was already under investigation.

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