The Telegraph: EU migrants worth more to public finances than UK-born, study claims

18 September 2018

EU migrants pay more tax than the average British adult, leaving the UK’s public finances at risk and making post-Brexit tax hikes more likely, according to Oxford Economics.

Migrants from the EU contribute £2,300 more on average per year to the public finances than a UK-born adult, the study, commissioned for the Government’s Migration Advisory Committee, has claimed.

By contrast, a those born in the UK contributed £70 less than average and each non-EU migrant contributed £800 less than average.

Since migrants arrive in the country often having either completed their education, they often draw on less taxpayer funding than their native-born counterparts. [...]

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