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Campaigners told the Con-Dems to start chasing corporation tax instead of bedroom tax yesterday as new figures showed firms owe over 260 times what is made from victimised renters.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) statistics said that savings from the reviled bedroom tax equate to barely 1 per cent of the cash lost to tax-dodging.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has cited savings of £680m to justify the policy, which cuts social tenants' housing benefits by up to a quarter if DWP officials deem their homes "underoccupied."
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
