Wednesday, 20 October 2010

Fair's FAIR

Sourced from facebook friends who read the papers:

1.2 bn: annual cost of benefit fraud
40bn: annual cost of tax avoidance

Banks will avoid paying £19bn on tax of future profits by offsetting their losses against (your) tax.

6bn: Tax avoided by Vodafone after negociating with Inland Revenue
2bn: Amount 15 million tax paying individuals must pay (averaging £1500 each) after Inland Revenue mistakenly over charged them last year.

4bn: Estimated value of retail tycoon (Topshop owner) and Government "waste tsar" Sir Philip and Lady Green's collective assets.
40p: Average hourly wage paid to Topshop workers in Sri Lankan sweat shops

The opportunities of Disaster Capitalism the Tories have been waiting for: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/oct/18/conservative-financial-crisis-opportunity

23 milionaires out of 29 in our cabinet of 'we're all in it together' slash and burn politicians.

It's clearly stiggers desire to depress you this morning....

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