Matthew Offord – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Matthew Offord on 2015-11-09.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the illegal trade of cigarettes in Northern Ireland.
Damian Hinds
Estimates of the volume and total revenue losses associated with the tobacco illicit market are published in ‘Tobacco Tax Gap Estimates 2014 to 2015’.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tobacco-tax-gap-estimates
These estimates cannot be broken down on a regional basis.
The methodology for producing the estimates are provided in the ‘Measuring Tax Gaps 2015 edition: Methodological Annex’.
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