{"id":66049,"date":"2022-12-19T07:11:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T07:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=66049"},"modified":"2022-12-19T07:11:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T07:11:29","slug":"the-tax-gap-the-biggest-waste-of-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/12\/19\/the-tax-gap-the-biggest-waste-of-all\/","title":{"rendered":"The tax gap: the biggest waste of all?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This tweet has links to an article by me for Bylines:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Bylines Network special feature article this month comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardJMurphy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RichardJMurphy<\/a>, who explains how the government has been looking for waste in the wrong place.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up to our newsletter for free to receive this and other great content!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YQpfz7iLjJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/YQpfz7iLjJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; East Anglia Bylines (@BylinesEast) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BylinesEast\/status\/1604579023941767168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I was asked by Bylibnes to write about waste. I wrote about the biggest waste of all in the government sector, which is the tax that goes uncollected each year, with the greatest advantage to the wealthy and cheats. Government indifference to this is one of the biggest, unseen and unnoticed scandals of your time,m denying most people the opportunities they need, including paying less tax and so address inequality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tweet has links to an article by me for Bylines: The Bylines Network special feature article this month comes from @RichardJMurphy, who explains how<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/12\/19\/the-tax-gap-the-biggest-waste-of-all\/\"><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":[35,107,106,10,55,50,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-hmrc","category-politics","category-tax-avoidance","category-tax-evasion","category-tax-gap","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66049","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=66049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}