The source data has been linked to here, often, but for the record; yes, I did calculate the tax evasion figure.
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That needs to go on every billboard in England.
How odd that the Tax Payers Alliance don’t seem to be very vocal about the exchequer being cheated out of £70bn! Isn’t this outrageous situation just the sort of thing an independent grassroots organisation campaigning for lower taxes like the TPA should be banging on about? Oh, hang on…
@John, maybe because HMRC is not being ‘cheated’ out of 70bn. Have you investigated how this ‘number’ was arrived at? Makes no room for deductions or any other exceptions allowed by Parliament. The 70bn figure is a purely political number conjured up by TR-UK and TUC. It has no basis in reality.
Not true – see the blog this morning
Complete nonsense – you have not even read it to make comments like that
This is about evasion – not avoidance
Unfortunately the Government, by descending into the political sewer, has won this particular propaganda war. The public have gone for the benefit claimant as a leech on the system. I claim housing benefit at present and feel that the atmosphere is so hostile that I dare not mention it unless I’m sure of where my interlocutor is coming from. Most people do not know that benefits are unclaimed – a concept unheard of in the corporate world.