{"id":61267,"date":"2022-01-26T07:20:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T07:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=61267"},"modified":"2022-01-26T07:20:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T07:20:37","slug":"the-government-is-unable-to-say-why-it-did-not-put-basic-checks-to-tackle-covid-fraud-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/01\/26\/the-government-is-unable-to-say-why-it-did-not-put-basic-checks-to-tackle-covid-fraud-in-place\/","title":{"rendered":"The government is unable to say why it did not put basic checks to tackle Covid fraud in place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/01\/25\/companies-house-still-seeing-no-issues-and-asking-no-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blog post yesterday<\/a>, quoting Lord Prem Sikka, who I have worked with for twenty years on tax justice issues, I note this exchange in which he was involved on the matter of tackling fraud within Covid loan and furlough applications <a href=\"https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/Lords\/2022-01-25\/debates\/45E850C3-2180-49A7-8E18-2CC1555A7E3D\/details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">yesterday in the Lords<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-61268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-2022-01-25-at-19.28.24-550x334.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-2022-01-25-at-19.28.24-550x334.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-2022-01-25-at-19.28.24-494x300.png 494w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-2022-01-25-at-19.28.24-768x466.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-2022-01-25-at-19.28.24-1536x933.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-2022-01-25-at-19.28.24-600x364.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-2022-01-25-at-19.28.24.png 1578w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Prem's questions make complete sense. I have not a clue what the answer means, and I am sure Prem has not either. It is gibberish, beyond the admission that the Viscount was unable to answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to my blog post yesterday, quoting Lord Prem Sikka, who I have worked with for twenty years on tax justice issues, I note this<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/01\/26\/the-government-is-unable-to-say-why-it-did-not-put-basic-checks-to-tackle-covid-fraud-in-place\/\"><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":[67,26,96,14,35,16,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountancy","category-accounting","category-conservatives","category-corruption","category-economics","category-ethics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61267","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=61267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}