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March 14, 2014
Migrants have cost the Exchequer £140billion since the mid-1990s – more than £22million a day – it was claimed yesterday.
A new study starkly contradicts Left-wing claims that immigration helps to cut taxes.
Think-tank MigrationWatch has responded to another study – given substantial coverage by the BBC last year – which purported to show that immigrants made a contribution of £25billion to the public purse between 2001 and 2011.
But MigrationWatch says it was based on ‘highly misleading’ claims and some ‘wholly unrealistic’ assumptions.
It says authors Christian Dustmann and Tommaso Frattini, researchers at University College London, overstated the likely tax revenues from migrants and under-played the amount they claimed in benefits.
Sir Andrew Green, chairman of MigrationWatch, said: ‘Our report finally disposes of the immigration lobby’s oft repeated claims that immigration reduces our tax burden.
‘The total cost is high and increased dramatically between 1995 and 2011, providing no compensation for the overcrowding of this island which we are experiencing, largely as a result of immigration.’
‘The study by UCL’s Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration suggested that migrants contributed 34 per cent more in taxes than they cost in benefits and consumption of public services.
But the MigrationWatch researchers point out that buried in a table at the back of the report, the net fiscal cost of migrants between 1995 and 2011 – the full span of the study – is revealed to be £95billion.
But the UCL report used a much shorter period between 2001 and 2011, when Britain saw a huge influx of Eastern Europeans, to conclude migrants had made a net contribution of £25billion.
The figures were based on the assumption that the most recent arrivals contribute as much as long term migrants, despite being younger and on lower incomes.
