Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself

[AtW]

Number of people 'grassing up' their tax-evading neighbours for cash rewards doubles in a year

Tens of thousands of people “grassed up” neighbours they suspected were evading tax last year, Telegraph Money can reveal.

Figures released in response to a Freedom of Information request show that 40,695 people called HM Revenue & Customs’ tax evasion hotline in 2017-18, more than double the 20,200 reports of the previous year.

The taxman paid out £343,500 to informants in financial rewards for reporting suspicious activity, last year.

Fiona Fernie, a dispute specialist at accountants Blick Rothenberg, said: “There will be a huge mixture of things.

"You will get the people reporting VAT fraud on art, that can be multi-million pounds, the local builder who is getting paid cash in hand, the structures...


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tax/news...-cash-rewards/

[Paddy]

Number of people 'grassing up' their tax-evading neighbours for cash rewards doubles in a year

Tens of thousands of people “grassed up” neighbours they suspected were evading tax last year, Telegraph Money can reveal.

Figures released in response to a Freedom of Information request show that 40,695 people called HM Revenue & Customs’ tax evasion hotline in 2017-18, more than double the 20,200 reports of the previous year.

The taxman paid out £343,500 to informants in financial rewards for reporting suspicious activity, last year.

Fiona Fernie, a dispute specialist at accountants Blick Rothenberg, said: “There will be a huge mixture of things.

"You will get the people reporting VAT fraud on art, that can be multi-million pounds, the local builder who is getting paid cash in hand, the structures...


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tax/news...-cash-rewards/

The Brits are the worse. They are top of the league for nasty neighbours

[Mordac]

The Brits are the worse. They are top of the league for nasty neighbours

Are you saying all your neighbours were nasty to you? What's the common factor here?

[darmstadt]

Stasi Britain...the UKSSR...

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My strong accented Bayern neighbour who I can hardly understand at the best of times has brought me a bowl of fruit, as he gathered more than he can use. Bless him. He's very kind if not difficult to understand!

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Stasi Britain...the UKSSR...

This story is hard to believe, sounds like 1930's Berlin.

What the hell is happening to the UK?

[vetran]

This story is hard to believe, sounds like 1930's Berlin.

What the hell is happening to the UK?

no it doesn't.

The government haven't started attacking the Jews (that's just the leader of the opposition) the Army hasn't been indoctrinated and the public haven't been put into a position where they are afraid to question the government.

Whilst there is no law forcing you to report crimes (tax evasion is a crime!) there is a moral duty.

Luckily Germany is ahead of us they were doing this in 2008, we don't have to go back to the 1930s.

https://www.thelocal.de/20080614/12491

Jörg Sprave has founded his company Steuerverrat.de in Hagen, near Dortmund, with the call, “Do you have information about a case of tax evasion? Perhaps you even have proof? You want to make easy money from the information you have? Then this is the right place for you.”

Sprave says he intends to pocket 15 percent of the reward paid by the tax authorities on successful prosecutions.

Clemens Teschendorf from Berlin's finance office told Die Welt, “The entire breadth of human relationships are shown in the people who come and make a complaint here.”

He said reports of tax evasion were submitted by craftsmen who had not been paid, to jealous neighbours to company owners in conflict with business partners. Even spouses have been known to report each other to the tax authorities.

You better hide in the attic in case your Missus reports you!

[darmstadt]

no it doesn't.

The government haven't started attacking the Jews (that's just the leader of the opposition) the Army hasn't been indoctrinated and the public haven't been put into a position where they are afraid to question the government.

Whilst there is no law forcing you to report crimes (tax evasion is a crime!) there is a moral duty.

Luckily Germany is ahead of us they were doing this in 2008, we don't have to go back to the 1930s.

https://www.thelocal.de/20080614/12491

You better hide in the attic in case your Missus reports you!

Except that's a private company doing it, slightly different. Didn't the UK propose having health inspectors come round to your house to see if you're eating healthily...

Britain's Rise As A Techno-Stasi State - TruePublica

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/wp-co...-digital-1.pdf

https://www.caughtoncamera.net/news/...ras-in-london/

It is estimated that there are 500,000 CCTV cameras dotted around London.

Yet someone can still drive a car erratically around London before crashing it into people...

That way lies totalitariansim. I have been tracking how a state can slide unthinkingly into such a situation for years, particularly looking at such warnings from history as 1930s Germany and, over the last decade, I have seriously begun to fear for my country.

[vetran]

Except that's a private company doing it, slightly different. Didn't the UK propose having health inspectors come round to your house to see if you're eating healthily...

Britain's Rise As A Techno-Stasi State - TruePublica

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/wp-co...-digital-1.pdf

https://www.caughtoncamera.net/news/...ras-in-london/



Yet someone can still drive a car erratically around London before crashing it into people...

Its a private company acting as an intermediary to collect the reward paid by the government. Maybe its me but having bounty hunters reporting tax evasion is slightly more scary than individuals. YMMV

Jörg Sprave has founded his company Steuerverrat.de in Hagen, near Dortmund, with the call, “Do you have information about a case of tax evasion? Perhaps you even have proof? You want to make easy money from the information you have? Then this is the right place for you.”

Sprave says he intends to pocket 15 percent of the reward paid by the tax authorities on successful prosecutions.

Clemens Teschendorf from Berlin’s finance office told Die Welt, “The entire breadth of human relationships are shown in the people who come and make a complaint here.”

He said reports of tax evasion were submitted by craftsmen who had not been paid, to jealous neighbours to company owners in conflict with business partners. Even spouses have been known to report each other to the tax authorities.

Yeah because the Germans only allow you to mow people down in a stolen truck not a legally owned car.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Berlin_truck_attack

of course we have managed to avoid bomb attacks for a few years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_Germany

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no it doesn't.

The government haven't started attacking the Jews

Nice deflection. I was meaning fascism.

Neighbour turning upon neighbour just seems facist to me, especially when there's a financial reward provided by the state no less