Many people, however, live their lives in evasion of the central fact of existence.
These, Mr Schlesinger has discovered, were to school people in evasion rather than truth and honesty.
The McBride-Draper email smears began with untruth and ended in evasion.
Tax officials should instead be chasing down multinationals involved in evasion and aggressive tax avoidance schemes, critics claim.
Non-payment of the licence fee should be decriminalised but must be done alongside new measures to prevent a subsequent increase in evasion and loss of funding.
Mr. Silvani said that these gains led to a reduction in evasion from well over 30percenttoto about 25percentt.
Just a 1% increase in evasion would lead to the loss of around £35m, the equivalent of around 10 BBC local radio stations".
Confirmation hearings have become exercises in evasion, as judicial nominees pledge their fidelity to legal platitudes while refusing to provide any specifics.
"Sharif was involved in evasion of taxes, money laundering, circumventing procedures and railroading legislation specifically to benefit family concerns," Farouk Adam Khan, the chief corruption prosecutor, said.
Instead he delivered a masterclass in evasion, fobbing off his dodgily coiffed interviewer, Miggs Burroughs, with lines like "there's no real logic to it" and "I'm not trying to be a smart aleck or a wise guy".
At the time it estimated that this surge in evasion could cost £80m a year in lost vehicle tax revenue, which the department said was "higher than in any year since at least 2007".
