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I'm not trolling, for one. Second, why shouldn't I repeat what I hear? Sure this is anecdotal, but the source is a trusted friend, who wasn't passing judgement by the way - just telling me what his (Indian) friends responsible for these kids told him. He actually spent the day walking in the South Downs with them, and they were continually stoned. He thought they seemed a little 'lost' shall we say - he felt sorry for them.
With regard to the rest, there isn't a fixed sum they'd need to send home, nor were they necessarily being lined up for taxable work. I wasn't making an economic point in any case - more one concerning the fallibility of supposedly well intentioned Foreign Office policy and how it is open to exploitation. Having attended a few meetings on the subject - as a transcribing outsider - I got the impression that this sort of stuff was as much to do with winning building contracts for British firms as it was helping to reconstruct countries torn apart by war.
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let's just assume what you're saying is true, and youre not being a troll. And I know I'm being incredibly simplistic here, and there's a lot of other issues, not least cultural and economic but...
There were 3,460 asylum applications to the UK from Afghanistan in the year ending June 2016, of which 35% were granted (1,211) (source: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/bulletins/migrationstatisticsquarterlyreport/august2016)
Let's assume (being generous here) that all of them send £10,000 back to their greedy families in Afghanistan. That means an additional c. £12 million is going out the UK so the tax man is missing out on the 20% VAT on all of that £10k pp meaning he takes a tax hit of £2,400,000 per year additionally from those migrants.
However, they get taxed on those earnings before they receive them. So, in order to send £10,000 back a year I assume they'd have to earn at least £20,000 a year. Which means on £20K a year they pay they'll pay £1,800 income tax and £1,433 in National Insurance. So the 'tax man' makes c. £4,000,000 a year.
So net bonus of £1.6 mill.
Ker ching!
Don't just repeat what you hear