{"id":14730,"date":"2012-03-21T22:05:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T22:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=14730"},"modified":"2012-03-21T22:05:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T22:05:48","slug":"now-the-governments-admitted-50p-tax-rate-payers-did-6-billion-of-tax-avoidance-will-they-up-their-estimate-of-tax-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/03\/21\/now-the-governments-admitted-50p-tax-rate-payers-did-6-billion-of-tax-avoidance-will-they-up-their-estimate-of-tax-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Now the government&#8217;s admitted 50p tax rate payers did \u00c2\u00a36 billion of tax avoidance will they up their estimate of tax gap?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government admitted today that 50p tax rate payers alone did more than \u00a36 billion of tax avoidance on one income tax ruse alone.<\/p>\n<p>But in September 2011 they said all tax avoidance over all taxes plus national insurance and VAT was just \u00a35 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let's be clear, those numbers are irreconcilable. And it's also now impossible for them to say I'm wrong on the tax gap component of tax avoidance that I argue to be \u00a325 billion - when they found a quarter of that in just one ruse, that they say would have continued.<\/p>\n<p>So are they now going to admit that my figure for tax avoidance is right after all? <\/p>\n<p>This could be interesting the next time they issue tax gap data - because it sure as heck can't include the absurdly low numbers it has done in the past again - because they've now very clearly admitted they're wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Whichever way they turn it seems they confirm my data is more reliable than anything they admit to. There has to be a silver lining to their incompetence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government admitted today that 50p tax rate payers alone did more than \u00a36 billion of tax avoidance on one income tax ruse alone. But<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/03\/21\/now-the-governments-admitted-50p-tax-rate-payers-did-6-billion-of-tax-avoidance-will-they-up-their-estimate-of-tax-gap\/\"><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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14730","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=14730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}