{"id":8147,"date":"2016-03-16T11:57:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T11:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=8147"},"modified":"2016-03-16T11:57:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T11:57:25","slug":"picking-up-the-tax-cheats-tab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=8147","title":{"rendered":"Picking up the tax cheats&#8217; tab"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Today (March 16) the country&#8217;s eyes are on George Osborne as he attempts to plug an \u00c2\u014118bn hole in his budget.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He told the BBC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <em>Andrew Marr Show<\/em> &#8216;we need to act now so we don&#8217;t pay later.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 The Chancellor has warned of \u00c2\u01414bn of further spending cuts in\u00c2\u00a0today&#8217;s budget.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He revealed a new goal to make savings of 50p in every \u00c2\u0141100 of government spending by 2020. Mr Osborne stands accused of hitting the most vulnerable with the latest cuts set to fall on the welfare budget yet again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Disability benefit payments are likely to be cut by a further \u00c2\u01411.2bn hitting over half a million disabled people who need help with dressing and using the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile tax cheats are robbing the UK economy of more than \u00c2\u01415bn. So why cut \u00c2\u01414bn from the welfare bill and punish the vulnerable further when closing tax loopholes would raise more money?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Charity Oxfam has called for a crackdown on tax havens to stop big businesses sitting on piles of cash and withholding funds that could help fight poverty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Richest 1 per cent \u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/get-involved\/campaign-with-us\/our-campaigns\/inequality-and-poverty\/end-the-era-of-tax-havens\">report<\/a>, <em>End the Era of Tax Havens<\/em>, Oxfam reveals that more than a quarter of the wealth created in Britain over the past 15 years has ended up in the pockets of the richest 1 per cent of people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Figures from Swiss bank Credit Suisse show that the net wealth for people in the UK has increased from \u00c2\u01416tn in 2000 to \u00c2\u014110tn in 2015. And while just 7p in every pound of wealth created went to the 30m people who make up the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s poorest 50 per cent, around 26p went to the richest 1 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOsborne\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cuts have damaged the economy and people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lives, time and time again. That the rest of us keep picking up the tab for richest 1 per cent is disgraceful,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Steve Turner, Unite assistant general secretary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOsborne has continually hit the most marginalised the hardest while letting the very richest off the hook,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that British tax-dodgers are holding more than \u00c2\u0141170bn in tax havens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oxfam is calling on Osborne to clamp down on tax dodging by demanding UK companies publish country-by-country data on profits and tax contribution.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (March 16) the country&#8217;s eyes are on George Osborne as he attempts to plug an \u00c2\u014118bn hole in his budget. &nbsp; He told the BBC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Andrew Marr Show &#8216;we need to act now so we don&#8217;t pay later.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 The Chancellor has warned of \u00c2\u01414bn of further spending cuts in\u00c2\u00a0today&#8217;s budget. &nbsp; He revealed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[498],"wps_subtitle":"Osborne to cut the poorest while cheats get off ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8149,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8147\/revisions\/8149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}