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Over £9 bn wasted by UK spenders in tax payments

March 26, 2008 by admin  
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Almost £9.3 billion is wasted by UK consumers through unnecessary tax payments, one financial expert has claimed.

The amount wasted in tax will increase by almost £1.4 billion compared to 2007 shows research from Unbiased.co.uk.

Up to 82 per cent of consumers admit to do nothing to reduce their payments, despite over 34 million people expressing dissatisfaction with the extra costs.

David Elms, chief executive of Unbiased.co.uk, said that tax payers are wasting record sums.

“We estimate that each UK tax payer will waste an average of over £290 in tax payments this year,” he stated.

The findings shows that unnecessary Inheritance Tax (IHT) payments are set to rise by over £360 million in 2008, resulting in a predicted total waste of over £1.9 billion.

This is despite IHT being named the most resented tax by one in five UK adults said the survey.

Further research from the company showed that 70 days of an average consumers annual wage is spent on clearing interest on credit card and loan debts.

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