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Campaigners told the Con-Dems to start chasing corporation tax instead of bedroom tax yesterday as new figures showed firms owe over 260 times what is made from victimised renters.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) statistics said that savings from the reviled bedroom tax equate to barely 1 per cent of the cash lost to tax-dodging.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has cited savings of £680m to justify the policy, which cuts social tenants' housing benefits by up to a quarter if DWP officials deem their homes "underoccupied."
While claiming to target fraud, Labour’s snooping Bill strips benefit recipients of privacy rights and presumption of innocence, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE, warning that algorithms with up to 25 per cent error rates could wrongfully investigate and harass millions of vulnerable people
