IT was brilliant to hear about the tax plans being produced by the traders of Crickhowell, in Wales.

For those not aware, they have taken a leaf out of the Starbucks and Google when it comes to tax planning – aka tax avoidance to you and me.

They have developed a plan to reduce their tax in the same way as those massive companies, and they expect to force George Osborne into fulfilling his promise to close the massive tax loopholes that allow massive turnover companies to avoid tax.

They had previously considered that they did not have the high-powered legal means or suitably expensive tax advice to enable their plan but they have managed to achieve it. They have already met with HMRC and are starting to put it into place.

They, like everyone in this country who pays their fair share of tax, do not see why year-after-year these massive companies are fleecing the hard-worked taxpayers of this country and want it to change – and change soon.

The whole exercise is being filmed and a series of programmes is to be aired in 2016 on BBC2 to be called The Town that Went Offshore. I’ll be watching.

Crickhowell residents want to share their tax avoidance plan with other towns in a bid to force the Treasury into legislation to crack down on loopholes which allowed the likes of Amazon to pay just £11.9m of tax last year on £5.3bn of UK internet sales.

Chris Gallacher, Chairman, Ukip Redcar