If tax-dodging is difficult to prove, whack today’s villains for flogging dodgy chocolate instead
Hand car washes, of which there are at least 5,000 across Britain, are the archetypal example of Britain’s black-market economy. Rishi Sunak, the prime minister, fears that the tens of thousands of people who cross the Channel in small boats each year will “just disappear” into this economy unless something is done.
Ministers know all this. But when the government attempted to tighten the rules in 2018, it opted for self-regulation. A code, which largely amounted to car washes promising to follow existing laws, has been taken up by few operators. Those businesses that are profitable largely because they do not adhere to the law were less keen. Consumers, meanwhile, are happy to have their Nissan Qashqai washed for a tenner.
Enforcement of basic labour rights is weak. The taxman investigates about 3,000 of Britain’s roughly 5m businesses each year for minimum-wage violations. Between 2007 and 2021 just 16 employers were successfully prosecuted for breaking the national minimum-wage law. ,” brags the report revealing this triumph.) “It is not even hiding in plain sight, it is just happening in plain sight,” says Ms Creagh.
The council does what it can. It often raids shops like the ones on Oxford Street on suspicion of selling dodgy goods, whether unsafe vape juice or knock-off chocolate. Think of it as a sequel to the Al Capone approach. Nailing the Chicagoan gangster for murder proved impossible so the authorities charged him with tax evasion. If tax-dodging is proving difficult to prove, whack today’s villains for flogging dodgy chocolate instead.The problem is not intractable.
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