Priti Patel – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Priti Patel on 2014-04-10.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the loss to the public purse as a result of illicit, illegal and smuggled tobacco in each of the last five years.

Nicky Morgan

Estimates of the volume and total revenue losses associated with the tobacco illicit market are published in ‘Tobacco Tax Gap estimates: 2012-13′. The figures are available in tables 4.1 and 4.5.

These estimates cannot be disaggregated by the type of illicit activity, e.g. through smuggling, counterfeiting or other fraud.

The methodology for producing the estimates are provided in the ‘Methodological Annex for Measuring Tax Gaps 2013′.

Both documents can be accessed via the following page on the HMRC website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/measuring-tax-gaps

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