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Originally Posted by rasa
the amount of benefits which falsely get claimed does not even come close to the amount which is dodged in tax evasion, mostly done by the well off,this is fact
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Originally Posted by coolcat
Time to substantiate those facts then  |
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Originally Posted by rasa
this was watched last year by me on tv, cannot remember the numbers exactly but here goes, 3.8 billion in benefits fraud, and 31 billion in tax evasion,
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A quick bit of Googling:
This site shows some figures about tax not paid.
And
this site shows figures about benefit fraud.
As with everything it's all more complicated than a quick line with stark figures can portray. However, it does show there is a large difference between what doesn't get paid in tax that should be and what gets claimed wrongly by way of benefits.