Osborne wins jammy dodger tax award
31 January 2011
War on Want together with activists from trade union PCS and UK Uncut today awarded Tory Chancellor George Osborne a giant Jammy Dodger for coming top in the national Tax Shirker poll.
Osborne took a commanding 35% of the poll, which was hosted on the False Economy website and supported by the TUC. He was nominated for his refusal to clamp down on wealthy tax dodgers in the UK while slashing public services at the expense of the poor.
War on Want has long campaigned for a crackdown on tax dodgers, both for the sake of the British economy and for developing countries. The UK exchequer loses up to £120bn a year through tax dodging, while governments across the global South are robbed of around £250bn each year as a result of corporate tax 'minimisation'.
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