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If the coalition really want 'savings', why do they ignore the £40bn a year in tax avoidance...?

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LadyBlaBlah · 11/08/2010 17:40

Bearing in mind that benefit fraud (feckless scrounging wasters) and error costs us £5.2b, why the emphasis on this, rather than tax avoidance?

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Kaloki · 11/08/2010 17:57

Great isn't it LadyBlaBlah?

RobynLou · 11/08/2010 17:57

there was a great sketch about this on the now show (R4 comedy) recently.
My answer would be, because the cuts are ideologically based and the deficit is the excuse which the tories have been dreaming of for decades...

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LadyBlaBlah · 11/08/2010 17:53

Oh. That's fine then.

Funny how they will chase up £60 a week though

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Kaloki · 11/08/2010 17:48

DP's mum used to work in fraud and I believe they only investigate tax fraud over a certain amount. So quite a few are deliberately only fraudulently claiming tax back under that amount, and not getting investigated

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LadyBlaBlah · 11/08/2010 17:44

I await LFN's explanation!

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sarah293 · 11/08/2010 17:40

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