Last night Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said the officials would have to prove they are paying their fair share of tax or lose their jobs.

An official investigation found large scale tax avoidance among senior bureaucrats, prompting the massive crackdown by Mr Alexander.

In all, 2,000 senior public officials on more than £58,200 were found to be paid “off payroll”, which could minimise their tax bills, according to a leaked letter obtained by Exaro, the investigative website and the BBC’s Newsnight programme.

They are paid through service companies, or through employment agencies. The amount of tax legally avoided could run into tens of millions of pounds.

via Two thousand ‘off payroll’ senior civil servants forced to prove they are not tax dodgers – Telegraph.