{"id":18298,"date":"2012-11-22T11:38:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T11:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=18298"},"modified":"2012-11-22T11:38:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T11:38:22","slug":"average-cost-of-local-authority-benefit-fraud-per-case-2166-average-cost-of-tax-avoidance-per-case-248780","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/22\/average-cost-of-local-authority-benefit-fraud-per-case-2166-average-cost-of-tax-avoidance-per-case-248780\/","title":{"rendered":"Average cost of local authority benefit fraud per case, \u00c2\u00a32,166. Average cost of tax avoidance, per case, \u00c2\u00a3248,780"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought the <a title=\"Every one of the 41,000 tax avoiders identified by the National Audit Office is costing the country \u00a3248,780\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/22\/every-one-of-the-41000-tax-avoiders-identified-by-the-national-audit-office-is-costing-the-country-248780\/\" target=\"_blank\">astonishing average \u00a3248,780 <\/a>cost of each tax avoidance case identified as\u00a0outstanding\u00a0at\u00a0H M Revenue &amp; Customs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nao.org.uk\/publications\/1213\/tax_avoidance.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">by the National Audit Offic<\/a>e should be\u00a0benchmarked\u00a0for comparison. The total outstanding is \u00a310.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>So I've compared it with the average cost of each local authority housing can council tax fraud case identified <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audit-commission.gov.uk\/sitecollectiondocuments\/downloads\/20121107-ppp2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">in a report by the Audit Commission, also published this month<\/a>. They found fraud of \u00a3117 million spread over 54,000 cases in 2011\/12. That's an average cost of \u00a32,166 each. I suspect that is typical of all\u00a0benefit\u00a0frauds.<\/p>\n<p>Let's plot this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-11-22-at-11.35.32.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18299\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-11-22 at 11.35.32\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-11-22-at-11.35.32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-11-22-at-11.35.32.png 381w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-11-22-at-11.35.32-122x300.png 122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now which one of those two requires more\u00a0attention\u00a0and\u00a0publicity, do you think?<\/p>\n<p>So why do we always here about\u00a0benefit\u00a0fraud?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought the astonishing average \u00a3248,780 cost of each tax avoidance case identified as\u00a0outstanding\u00a0at\u00a0H M Revenue &amp; Customs by the National Audit Office should be\u00a0benchmarked\u00a0for<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/22\/average-cost-of-local-authority-benefit-fraud-per-case-2166-average-cost-of-tax-avoidance-per-case-248780\/\"><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":[14,107,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-hmrc","category-tax-avoidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18298","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=18298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}