According to the Guardian:
HM Revenue and Customs's resource budget will be cut by 5%, but extra resources will be provided to tackle tax evasion.
This is utterly bizarre logic. In a system - and we have a tax system - you simply cannot make such claims. It is not possible.
What you can say is the resources required to collect tax are being cut with the inevitable consequence that the tax yield will fall - probably by more than £11.5 billion.
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Richard, we all know that the Coalition has no intention of tackling tax evasion in UK , after all that would involve hurting their funders. Cameron is merely playing to the gallery because tax evasion has at last finally caught the imagination of some of the public. Not sure what can be done about this , as Labour does not appear to have challenged this ‘bizarre logic’. We have an official opposition which is frankly offering no real opposition,. So much was made of Miliband’s appointment of Cruddas but when I heard him at last years Fabian conference I was not very impressed. He must be operating in the shadows and Miliband is leaving coherent policy announcement much too late to convince the electorate. The 24/7 news culture can too easily destroy politicians who fail to respond quickly.
I suspect Cruddas is another champagne socialist like Prescott – in disguise as someone with ‘the common touch.’ We now know Labour is finished although the evidence has been around for years. It is a case of R.I.P.