grum - MemberInteresting mefty - I assumed when I hadn't heard anything about it, and when I wrote to my local Tory MP about it and he ignored the letter, that they weren't doing anything. That's encouraging, thanks.
You've been suckered mate.
The Con-Lib government has absolutely no intention of seriously tackling tax evasion.
Danny Alexander's claim that he would raise £7bn from tax evaders was a PR exercise aimed mostly at LibDems at conference who were on the verge of rebelling against the coalition government.
For a start £7bn is just a fraction of the estimated total. According to Attorney General's Office, the total is more than twice that amount - over £15bn.
Also according to Attorney General's Office, benefit fraud is estimated to total just over £1bn.
Which means that tax evasion costs the Treasury 15 TIMES MORE than benefit fraud.
Tax evasion costs Treasury 15 times more than benefit fraud
Do you hear the government talking 15 times more about clamping down on tax evasion than about clamping down on benefit fraud grum ? ......do you f##k 
Of course the way you calculate the estimated loss to the Treasury through tax evasion depends what you include. The charity War on Want calculates the figure is actually £100bn. Which would mean that tax dodgers are getting away with 100 times more than benefit cheats.
http://www.waronwant.org/campaigns/tax-dodging
Quote : "Britain also loses an estimated £100 billion a year through tax dodging. That's enough to double funding for the NHS."
Whatever the figure, is it is considerably more than £7bn. Which means that Danny Alexander is perfectly happy to let the majority of tax evaders get away with it.
And finally, do you think that if the Con-Lib government was really really serious about clamping down on tax evasion, they would be scrapping the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office "quango" ? The Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office is on CHB's list of quangos to be scrapped.
Do you think Vince Cable was telling the truth when he said on the Andrew Marr show that the coalition was committed to "beefing-up resources" so that tax could be collected properly ?
I'll remind you that it is the same Vince Cable who has demanded that HM Revenue & Customs finds 25% in cuts from its budgets as part of the "spending review".
Danny Alexander and Vince Cable will never treat tax evasion as a priority.........well they wouldn't want to upset their new mates in the Tory Party now would they ?
God help "benefit cheats" which in comparison to tax dodging Tories cost the country almost nothing though.
Me "ranting" ?! .........I thought it was the anti-Quangoists who were doing the ranting........I was just offering some facts.
