Ramping up exploitation (From South Wales Argus)
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Ramping up exploitation
3:03pm Friday 1st February 2013 in Letters
THE deliberate government austerity programme provides a framework for them to ramp up exploitation, job losses and cuts using the pretext of the bankers’ crisis to drive down wages and extend privatisation, aided by sections of the mainstream media (why would I believe a newspaper owner who attended the same school as David Cameron)?
By exposing the myths around ie so-called “benefit cheats” which are simply attempts to divide and weaken. The latest DWP figures show that 2011/12 just 0.7 per cent (£1.1 billion overpaid) benefit expenditure was due to fraud, meanwhile figures produced for PCS by the Tax Justice Network show that £25 billion is lost annually in tax avoidance and £70 billion in tax evasion by companies and wealthy individuals, £26 billion is going uncollected, meaning the “tax gap” is over £120 billion – over 75 per cent annual deficit, and 100 times the level of benefit fraud!
Mr T King Pontnewydd Cwmbran
Comments(5)
tking
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6:51am Sun 3 Feb 13
Llanmartinangel
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7:45am Sun 3 Feb 13
tking wrote:When you refer to 'corporation tax' who is it YOU think actually pays it? The people who buy the products and services (that's us by the way). It either comes from the price or the shareholder dividend. Given that most of that goes to pension funds (also us). Not that simple then.
well you can always challenge the departments own figures if you have a mind to,simply put it also exposes who the real scroungers are.
Howie'
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12:25am Mon 4 Feb 13
Bobevans wrote:Well where's your evidence then Bobby Boy? I have given you a number of Government links showing that benefit fraud is between 0.5-1.00%. If thats HMG's position having access to the figures why should anyone believe your prejudice driven opinion?
I am afraid you are quoting incorrect figures. Benefits fraud is widespread as can be seen from the frequent reports of benefits fraud on this paper. Currently as well they only investigate the top 5% of caes of potential fraud
Howie'
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4:58pm Mon 4 Feb 13
This time the Work programme providers have been caught cooking the books for the government and for themselves.
As everybody wondered how employment was going down,but the welfare budget was going up and up, this may explain why.
The people at the work programme were encouraging great numbers of their unemployed clients to go self employed even if it was just buying and selling stuff on E-bay or running a little ironing and cleaning service just to earn £20 - £30 per week.
Once self employed,they could claim working tax credits which would pay more than their job seekers allowance and of course they would no longer be unemployed...
But the real whammy of it all is that the tax payer gets hit from all sides.
Firstly they end up paying out in more benefits and then to top it all they pay a very big bonus to the work programme contractor for every single person that stops claiming JSA even though they are now claiming more money from the public purse through claiming working tax credits...
Iain Duncan Smith is yet again just another disastrous choice of cabinet minister by David Cameron who has surrounded himself with recycled Tory failures and then wonders why this Government are hemorrhaging money at every corner and the economy has sunk with out a trace
Bobevans says...
11:00am Sat 2 Feb 13