have you ever heard of pitcairn . if you've never heard of pitcairn and you're an e.u. citizen it might be well worth knowing for the facts where part of your taxes are go a. bit as one of britain's overseas territories a small island in the south pacific with a total population of about fifty people now locals don't pay taxes of the islands main source of income include tourism and postage stamps bot. on british e.u. eight well let's break down the numbers here in the ninth european development fund or e.t.f. pitcairn received two million euros in eight allocated for infrastructure building in the tempi v.f.p. it can receive two point four million that's a total of four point four million in thirteen years about six thousand eight hundred euros per person per year but that's not all earlier this year it emerged that the u.k. had sent about ten million pounds over four years to proponents of development aid the importance of maintaining quote solidarity and peace in developing nations that the european commission has indicated its attention to strengthen the focus of th

need pitcairn. it's clearly something of an historical normally and i think it would probably be unfair to completely disregard those people who do live in a british overseas territory but i think ways have to be found of helping them to support themselves more rather than becoming more so more reliant on britain itself ok well where else does britain's tax money get siphoned off to which taxpayers might not know about can you give us a couple of examples. well i mean the taxpayers lives regularly looks at how british taxpayers' money is spent and indeed often wasted most recently earlier this year we came up with a figure of one hundred twenty billion pounds a year being wasted in some way shape or form either by spending money on things that shouldn't money should be spending or to whether that be subsidies to ludicrous artistic projects which wouldn't get funding elsewhere or by spending money badly and getting very bad value for money whether it be in the way the ministry of defense buys its big