Timeline for Does the UK government have only 300 staff investigating tax evasion of £70bn+ vs 3250 staff investigating benefits (welfare) fraud of £1.2bn?
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| Feb 6, 2018 at 15:29 | comment | added | RedGrittyBrick | Your answer could mention there were 20 million DWP benefit claimants at May 2017. That is 40 times the number of rich/affluent quoted above. That could be an argument for 40x as many fraud investigators if you ignore average complexity of cases or other factors. So 11 times as many might not be disproportionate. | |
| Aug 3, 2017 at 6:01 | comment | added | user2617804 | I suggest you should basically include the entire Inland Revenue Service which about 29,000 people in tax enforcement gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/… | |
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| Sep 30, 2015 at 20:23 | history | answered | richardb | CC BY-SA 3.0 |