Black Economy Grafters – No-one is more strapped for cash than those at the economic bottom, so why pay more than you have to, especially if much of it ends up in the hands of the taxman? Britain’s black economy grafters will sort you out, and you’ll have some spare cash to treat the family. The way they see it, they dice with the law so the rest of us don’t quite have to…
This character-driven film will spend a few months in the lives of the grafters – and the people out to get them. Each year, the government loses £1.3 billion in taxes to counterfeiting, and taxpayers lose nearly £2 billion a year in revenue from tobacco smuggling alone. And that’s not even counting the millions spent on chasing down and prosecuting these black profiteers. As well as our cast of outspoken grafters, this film will follow some of the dogged investigators perpetually on their trail: the Trading Standards agents and private detectives whose job it is to stop them. The film will focus on the lives of three different sets of grafters: counterfeiters, ticket touts and tobacco smugglers.
Channel: BBC2
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