Tax dodging by rich could be 'much greater than thought', says UK audit office

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : She also blamed the problem on rich people's use of tax agents to exploit "loopholes in the system".
56% : But the complexity of most wealthy people's affairs made it more difficult for HMRC to identify the tax they owed and presented opportunities for them deliberately to avoid paying the correct amount, the NAO warned in a report on Friday.
53% : The scale of tax avoidance and evasion by wealthy people could be much higher than the UK tax authority previously thought, a report by the National Audit Office has found.
52% : Caitlin Boswell, head of advocacy and policy at tax justice UK, a campaign group, noted the growing gap between the tax owed by the wealthiest people and what was actually paid.

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