{"id":22227,"date":"2013-09-13T16:55:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T15:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=22227"},"modified":"2013-09-13T16:55:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T15:55:48","slug":"benefit-errors-cost-1-million-a-day-tax-avoidance-and-evasion-cost-260-million-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/09\/13\/benefit-errors-cost-1-million-a-day-tax-avoidance-and-evasion-cost-260-million-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefit errors cost \u00c2\u00a31 million a day. Tax avoidance and evasion cost \u00c2\u00a3260 million a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily telegraph is very vexed today that there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/politics\/10307615\/Benefit-errors-cost-taxpayers-1-million-a-day.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a31 million of benefit payment errors a day in the UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To put this in context, that's 0.16% of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/221885\/budget2013_complete.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">all benefit payments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now let's note that tax avoidance and tax evasion in my estimate (\u00a325 billion of avoidance and \u00a370 billion of evasion a year, figures embraced by the EU) cost the UK just over \u00a3260 million a day.<\/p>\n<p>So that's more than 260 times as much in absolute terms.<\/p>\n<p>And in total over 14% of all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/221885\/budget2013_complete.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">anticipated UK tax revenues (including those lost)<\/a>, at least.<\/p>\n<p>Now which one of those issues should be given more attention, do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily telegraph is very vexed today that there are \u00a31 million of benefit payment errors a day in the UK. To put this in<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/09\/13\/benefit-errors-cost-1-million-a-day-tax-avoidance-and-evasion-cost-260-million-a-day\/\"><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":[55,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-evasion","category-tax-gap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22227","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=22227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}