We are always directed to blame the poor for being workshy, feckless or for fiddling benefits.
Fiddling benefits by the poor costs the country £2.5 billion!! The Tory press is up in arms. These scroungers and cheats should be hunted down and locked up!!
Yet the fiddling of tax by the rich costs the country £35 billion!! We don’t hear a peep about it! This includes criminal fraud, tax evasion schemes using loopholes and deliberate obfuscation. There is no great rush to stop up the loopholes, shut down the tax evasion schemes or catch crooks who are fiddling millions!
Poor people fiddling tens or hundreds of pounds are villified and prosecuted (rightly). Extremely wealthy people stuffing millions abroad to evade tax are ignored – even praised for their initiative (wrongly)
