Who says crime doesn't pay

[expressman33]

Benefits cheat posed as struggling single-mum to con taxpayers out of £54,000
She was handed an eight-month sentence, suspended for two years and ordered to do 120 hours unpaid work and pay £85 costs.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/b ... e-21111475

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... edits.html

[blythburgh]

Far more money is lost to tax dodgers but most money is spent chasing benefit cheats.

But I cannot help but feel that in this case crime has paid

[BeautifulSunshine]

Far more money is lost to tax dodgers but most money is spent chasing benefit cheats.

But I cannot help but feel that in this case crime has paid

I've either been in education or working. I've never claimed any benefits - not a penny. That is my hard-earned tax these benefit cheats are reaping the rewards of.

[blythburgh]

Far more money is lost to tax dodgers but most money is spent chasing benefit cheats.

But I cannot help but feel that in this case crime has paid

I've either been in education or working. I've never claimed any benefits - not a penny. That is my hard-earned tax these benefit cheats are reaping the rewards of.

And they stole from the taxes paid by the stay at home parent, the disabled, the sick, the unemployed and the pensioners. We all pay tax in one way or another

[Richard Frost]

Every one pays tax. You do not have to be working or claiming benefits.

[expressman33]

Pregnant single mum 'unfit to work' scrounged £29k in benefits...she didn't tell DWP about her job at Manchester Airport or trade union role
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk ... nk1I55FE9w
At Bolton Crown Court, Garrod, of Bury, admitted two benefit fraud charges but was given 25 weeks jail suspended for two years.

[BeautifulSunshine]

Crime pays but it won't tempt me.

[macliam]

Pregnant single mum 'unfit to work' scrounged £29k in benefits...she didn't tell DWP about her job at Manchester Airport or trade union role
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk ... nk1I55FE9w
At Bolton Crown Court, Garrod, of Bury, admitted two benefit fraud charges but was given 25 weeks jail suspended for two years.

From the article:
''Repayment has commenced."
"She has been assessed as low risk of harm and reoffending.”
"She is the primary carer for the three children"

The judge appears to have decided that imprisoning the primary carer of three (soon to be four) children was not in the public interest. That is a decision he is paid to make and I'm not going to second-guess him.

If, as was claimed, HMRC were aware the woman was working, but the DWP were not, then it also suggests that those departments have a bit of a right-hand, left-hand problem. Who'd have guessed

[pakefield]

Why not add the tax dodgers in this thread, lots of them. Make money here, live abroad so no tax. Put your money offshore to avoid tax. So many legal ways not to pay tax but if you are an average Joe then your tax is taken before you get any money.

[expressman33]

Why not add the tax dodgers in this thread, lots of them. Make money here, live abroad so no tax. Put your money offshore to avoid tax. So many legal ways not to pay tax but if you are an average Joe then your tax is taken before you get any money.

"So many legal ways not to pay tax"