Interesting Links for 18-03-2025

[andrewducker]

1. How much welfare is fraudulently claimed, and how much bigger is the tax lost through evasion?

(tags:tax welfare fraud )

2. Edinburgh's Summerhall arts venue has 'bright future' after signing of 10-year lease

(tags:Edinburgh art GoodNews )

3. Nietzsche! Vs! Spicy! Food!

(tags:food philosophy pain )

4. A rational way of feeling about the present state of the world.

(tags:usa politics comic )

5. Planet Definitions

(tags:planets space comic )

6. "My brother stole a phone - 13 years on, he's still in prison"

(tags:prison uk OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[channelpenguin]

Yes, everywhere where there are state benefits I guess. But overstating the differential does NOT help the cause, rather hinder it!

Tax evasion/avoidance/lack of enforcement IS larger than benefit fraud, but NOT the 100x that was being bandied about. The article attempts to put a more factually-based number to it.

[ninetydegrees]

In my country, depending on what you mean by welfare fraud (fraud by individuals, companies, professionals, all of them?) and the number official organizations give, which greatly vary, this can reach 100x.