{"id":14318,"date":"2012-02-28T08:40:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T08:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=14318"},"modified":"2012-02-28T08:40:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T08:40:34","slug":"benefit-fraud-1200-million-per-annum-barclays-abusive-tax-reclaims-500-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/02\/28\/benefit-fraud-1200-million-per-annum-barclays-abusive-tax-reclaims-500-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefit fraud &#8211; \u00c2\u00a31,200 million per annum. Barclays&#8217; abusive tax reclaims &#8211; \u00c2\u00a3500 million."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/campaigns.dwp.gov.uk\/campaigns\/benefit-thieves\/\" target=\"_blank\">Benefit fraud\u00a0costs the UK <\/a>\u00a31.2 billion a year.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we learned that Barclays tried to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2012\/feb\/28\/treasury-closes-barclays-tax-schemes\" target=\"_blank\">claim \u00a3500 million of tax back it was not owed<\/a>. Some of this was, apparently, a refund claim for tax never paid.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have never condoned benefit cheating, and won't. But let's reflect for a moment. Which is the bigger issue here? Benefit cheating of \u00a31,200 million or highly paid bankers setting out in organised fashion to seek to claim \u00a3500 billion they are not due and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk\/press_66_10.htm\" target=\"_blank\">which they'd given their undertaking not to do<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I know my answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benefit fraud\u00a0costs the UK \u00a31.2 billion a year. Yesterday we learned that Barclays tried to claim \u00a3500 million of tax back it was not owed.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/02\/28\/benefit-fraud-1200-million-per-annum-barclays-abusive-tax-reclaims-500-million\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barclays","category-ethics","category-tax-avoidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}