The Taxpayers' Alliance is absurd. Everyone but the Mail and Express knows that. Their latest book of government waste does, however, take some beating.
Amongst the £120 billion of waste they say government is responsible for and which could be saved is £14 billion of tax evasion.
Hang on guys! Don't you realise at the TPA that tax evaded money is cash the government does not get? And in that case that it's impossible for the government to waste it?
Likewise, don't you realise at the TPA that it's not the government who wastes £769 million on missed hospital appointments? That's the fault of the people who don't turn up. What do you want the government to do? Fine them all £100 and then spend £1.5 billion chasing the debt?
You couldn't make this stuff up.....
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Could we not get into the habit of referring to them as the “so-called Taxpayer’s Alliance”.
I thought they approved of tax evasion, although it is not to the benefit of most taxpayers and of more use to their non-domiciled friends .
It’s a laughable document
“£22,573,941,774 – Overpaying on public sector pay
and pensions” based on public sector workers earning 8.2% more than private sector because lots of low wage jobs have been outsourced, and private sector earnings have fallen as people’s hours have dropped.
Interesting that they quote “Income related benefits going to the top 20 per cent income households – 2,342,430,950” – perhaps you should tell them it’s £29bn?
I don’t think they’d want to hear
Where is the reference to tax evasion? I battled to find it.
It’s in the fraud figure
Most of the fraud is tax evasion
Comment on my Facebook post from Clifford Singer:
TPA report based on:
https://www.gov.uk/…/nfa-annual-fraud-indicator-2013.pdf
“Public sector
– Fraud against the public sector is estimated to be £20.6 billion per annum.
– The estimate of possible public sector fraud losses includes losses to local and central government, as well as to the tax system. It is estimated that central government might be losing £2.6 billion and local government £2.1 billion to fraud, with a further £14.1 billion lost to tax fraud and vehicle excise fraud, and £1.9 billion to benefit and tax credit fraud.
“For calculating an estimate of tax fraud it is assumed that the underlying behaviours described as ‘evasion’, ‘the hidden economy’ and ‘criminal attacks’ represent fraud.”
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/206552/nfa-annual-fraud-in
http://www.gov.uk
For taxpayers alliance read = conservatives at home.
It´s a safe bet that they are more right wing than Genghis Khan.
It´s also a safe bet that most of their money comes from tax evaders/avoiders.
I had a small laugh at this, small:
http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2014/02/who-benefits-from-benefits.html
I missed two hospital appointments in December because I did not get the letters telling me I had them. Then I got a letter from my GPs saying that because I had not attended I was ‘being withdrawn’ from the service. It did not say which service.
As I attended the appointment I did know about, and got a diagnosis of cancer, I was quite relieved ‘the service’ did not mean ‘the NHS’.
I’m sorry to hear that
I know quite a lot about cancer services right now. My thoughts are with you and I hope you get all the care you need
My local GP surgery has quite a few missed appointments a week. Last September they lost 41 hours and 30 minutes. Which is the same as 413 appointments. In one month 33 were the same day appointments.
These are the reasons why people turn their back on the NHS. They could have been avoided.
Some who aren’t able to shop around, are not able to see a Doctor because people didn’t turn up.
Who Funds You is a website which tells us about the transparency of these ‘think tanks’ and similar organizations. Band E is the lowest and that is where we find the Tax Payers Alliance
DIscloses annual income No
Displays funding information on own website No
Names organisational funders No
Declares amounts given by organisational funders No
Names individual funders No
Declares amounts given by individual funders No
the other is the Adam Smith institute
I think the BBC at least, being a public body, should not publicise the pronouncements of them. Unless we know is saying it, it is propaganda.
I seek to make clear my funding on this blog
I also do so in my accounts
I bet it’s not as much!
Thanks for that Ian. I’ve just googled it, and bookmarked it. What do you know, all of the bodies in the lowest groups, D and E, are right wing ‘thinktanks’ – or to put it another way, lobby groups for corporate interests,, utterly unrepresentative of civil society.
Taxpayers Alliance my *rse – tax evaders apologists, that’s all.