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Thread #132448   Message #2998865
Posted By: Richard Bridge
03-Oct-10 - 02:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: Labour's new Miliband ... reactions ...
Subject: RE: BS: Labour's new Miliband ... reactions ...
I doubt ake's stats but the irony is that the IDS "reform" of benefits is scheduled to take until 2014 and to raise the benefits bill. Che?

Even more ironic, although the devil will be in the detail, it may actually increase benefits, at least in some cases.

I suspect however that providing a universal benefit with clawback through the tax system will make the taxman's life so complicated that the already crippled attempts to recover evaded and collect avoided tax will fade even more.