Quote from the latest copy of Private Eye magazine (4 April to 17 April):
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After three years blocking a freedom of information request from Private Eye, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has finally revealed how much it reckons is lost every year to the nation's tax dodgers.
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The attempt to bury bad news - "managing information", admitted HMRC's press secretary - can be explained by the figures, prepared in 2005. Up to £42bn - even more than the government's budget defecit and enough to eradicate UK child poverty ten times over - could be going begging every year through tax evasion and (legal) avoidance, of which just £4bn is recovered by tax inspectors. There is also £12bn lost to VAT fiddles every year.
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Can you absorb the enormity of that? Worth mentioning to your local BNP group.
And how much did the government try to say we benefit from immigrants?
Can anyone find a single link on the web to this scandal?