{"id":5893,"date":"2010-01-23T13:55:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T11:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=5893"},"modified":"2010-01-23T13:55:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T11:55:47","slug":"still-not-recognising-the-true-scale-of-tax-evasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/01\/23\/still-not-recognising-the-true-scale-of-tax-evasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Still not recognising the true scale of tax evasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/crime\/7044552\/Fraud-costs-Britain-30billion-a-year---far-more-than-previous-estimates.html\">Fraud costs Britain \u00a330billion a year - far more than previous estimates - Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The government is now saying tax evasion amounts to \u00a315 billion a year.<\/p>\n<p>The only trouble is that is not true. The real level of tax evasion is something <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/01\/17\/why-wont-hm-revenue-customs-admit-the-scale-of-tax-evasion\/\" target=\"_blank\">like \u00a370 billion a year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why  not say it as it is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fraud costs Britain \u00a330billion a year &#8211; far more than previous estimates &#8211; Telegraph. The government is now saying tax evasion amounts to \u00a315 billion<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/01\/23\/still-not-recognising-the-true-scale-of-tax-evasion\/\"><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-5893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893","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=5893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}