As we all know, the real reason for increased airport screening is to
know when people are carrying cash, securities, gems or silver/gold from
A to B. Searching your checked luggage for these assets. Backscatter
X-ray machines for seeing through clothing.
Bogus No-Fly-List exists so as to give a public reason why the gov't
must know who is on each plane, flying both domestic and international.
The real reason so they can try to figure out who you really are, what
you really do, who you associate with, and if you are likely to have
unreported income.
Giving themselves laws so they can access your e-mail and cell-phone
records.
They want you to think it's to keep you safe - to be able to find the
terrorists.
When in reality all of this information is feeding into HMRC (in the UK)
and the IRS (in the USA).
Let no dollar of income go undiscoverd, untaxed.
Your rights to privacy, anonymity, liberty and due process be dammed.
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Tax hitmen to track your spending
Up to two million people are to have their credit files secretly checked
under a crackdown on tax evasion to be unveiled by George Osborne to
help raise another £10 billion.
HMRC will today unveil the “successful” results of a pilot programme
involving about 20,000 people which will now be extended nationally.
Credit reference agencies will cross-check details of the income people
declare on their tax returns against their spending patterns to identify
“high” and “medium” risks of both illegal and legal tax avoidance.
People identified to HM Revenue and Customs will then be subject to more
detailed investigations. About two million people are expected to be
scrutinised under the programme, which may lead to privacy concerns.
HMRC will today unveil the “successful” results of a pilot programme
involving about 20,000 people which will now be extended nationally.
Many of those who are expected to be identified are likely to be
self-employed workers who have under-declared their income to the
authorities.
However, those who have benefited from secret windfalls – such as an
inheritance or a bonus – and people with secret offshore accounts could
also be highlighted.
Treasury sources said that “hundreds of millions” are expected to be
raised from the greater use of third-party data, such as that supplied
by credit reference agencies.
Ministers also wish to encourage more whistle-blowers to come forward
with details of offshore bank accounts.
The Treasury is to provide an extra £77 million a year to HMRC over the
next two years to increase its investigative capability. The “affluent
unit” which targets the wealthy is to take on 100 extra staff.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/p...-spending.html