Another #deception exposed - Recent #immigration to the #UK: New evidence of the #fiscal costs and #benefits UK #immigrants who arrived since 2000 are less likely to receive benefits and less likely to live in #SocialHousing than UK natives. What’s more, over the decade from 2001 to 2011, they made a considerable positive net contribution to the UK’s fiscal system, and thus helped to relieve the fiscal burden on UK-born #workers. The positive contribution is particularly evident for UK immigrants from the European Economic Area (EEA – the European Union plus three small neighbours): they contributed about 34% more in #taxes than they received in benefits over the period 2001-11. These are the central findings of a comprehensive analysis of the fiscal consequences of immigration to the UK, published today by the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) at UCL #UniversityCollegeLondon. The research report – written by Professor Christian Dustmann and Dr Tommaso Frattini from CReAM – provides an in-depth analysis of the net fiscal contribution of EEA immigrants in each fiscal year since 1995. Its main findings are that: * Recent immigrants (those who arrived after 1999 and who constituted 33% of the overall immigrant #population in the UK in 2011) were 45% less likely to receive #StateBenefits or #TaxCredits than UK natives over the period 2000-11. They were also 3% less likely to live in social housing. * Over the same period, recent EEA immigrants have on average contributed 34% more in taxes than they have received as transfers. Recent immigrants from countries outside the EEA have contributed 2% more in taxes than they have received as transfers. * In contrast, over the same period, the total of UK natives’ tax payments were 11% lower than the transfers they received. * Recent immigrants are also far better educated than natives: in 2011, 32% of recent EEA immigrants and 43% of recent non-EEA immigrants had a university degree. The comparable figure for UK natives is 21%.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 18:32:49 +0000