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£2bn a year in tax lost to black market

Britain's cash-in-hand culture now involves some two million �ghosts and moonlighters� and is losing the UK Government more than £2bn a year in lost taxes, the Commons influential Public Accounts Committee estimates today.

Britain's cash-in-hand culture now involves some two million "ghosts and moonlighters" and is losing the UK Government more than £2bn a year in lost taxes, the Commons influential Public Accounts Committee estimates today.