"Watchdog failing to halt charity fraud, say MPs"

 While resisting calls for a change in the law, the Government has drawn up
 voluntary codes to try to safeguard the huge sums of public money now being
 spent by charities.

 "If I had my way, I would completely rewrite the law," one MP said. "We have
 a very cosy system where people are just too easy on each other." 

 One senior MP, who did not want to be named, said charity law should be
 "radically reformed." The Charity Commissioners should no longer have the
 dual role of both regulating and supporting charities, he said. 

 According to a charity information service, Charities Direct, many of the
 biggest charities are now health care providers. 

 The UK charity with the biggest income in 1998 was the PPP Healthcare Medical
 Trust, a private health charity which received £426m. It was followed by the
 British Council with £425m and the Wellcome Trust with £314m. Oxfam came just
 ninth with an income of £155m and the British Red Cross 11th with £121m. The
 Arts Council, the British Library and the National Trust are all among the top
 10 charities in terms of income. 

 By Fran Abrams, Westminster Correspondent 
 7 August 2000
 "The Independent"

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 "Perceptions" note:
 
 You can see that many, perhaps even most, of these "charitable organisations"
 - while pretending to "give to the poor" [ definition of "charity" ] - are
 actually elite cliques and commercial operations dedicated to the interests
 of the rich and powerful.

 They are allowed - by their friends in the senior civil service - to grab huge
 amounts of poorer tax-payer's money.

 That money was originally paid - at very high net tax rates - by the working
 population: the middle-incomed and the poor, with the poorest (including the
 unemployed) paying the highest tax rates of all.

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 `Law or Justice?'   - www.perceptions.couk.com/laworjustice.html
 corrupt judiciary   - www.perceptions.couk.com/nitwigs.txt

 Fake Charities      - www.perceptions.couk.com/fakes.html
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