Apr 092010
The evidence is here.
The calculation is that £70 billion a year is lost to tax evasion and there are just over 60 million people in the UK.
2 Responses to “Tax cheats cost you £1,150 a year”
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[...] This will lead to further stigmatisation and vilification of benefit claimants, it is also misleading, vicious and unnecessary, why precisely is their a need for a nasty draconian policy like this? So that the Tories can be seen to be doing something about fraudsters? Well what about these tax fraudsters? [...]
I have for a long time wondered why no party has proposed to fix the public finances by tackling hard the problem of tax evasion.
Who, aside from tax evaders (and partners in accountancy firms flogging dodgy tax schemes), who could complain? It would certainly fill a gap in the finances whilst creating jobs (well additional tax men)