by Claire Aston | Feb 26, 2024
Following our recent article on customer service, the other side of the coin in terms of HMRC effectiveness relates to its compliance activity. Current Tax Gap is 4.8%, or £36bn for 2021/22 HMRC neither resourced nor tasked to reduce the Tax Gap below its current...
by Claire Aston | Dec 14, 2023
We’ve written for many years about the UK’s stubbornly high tax gap. This is the amount of tax that should have been paid if businesses and individuals had complied with all applicable tax legislation, but hasn’t been. The figure is estimated by HMRC for each tax...
by TaxWatch | Jun 21, 2023
Latest HMRC estimate of non-compliance unchanged from previous year, at 4.8% of all tax owed Absolute Tax Gap figure is £35.8bn – up from £30.8bn the previous year Changes to small business corporation tax methodology reveal a significant increase in this tax...
by Alex Dunnagan | Jun 27, 2022
HMRC’s Tax Gap has increased for the second year in a row on a like-for-like basis. The latest HMRC estimates of non-compliance are £32bn for 2020-2021, or 5.1% of total tax revenues. This is the same gap as a percentage as seen in last year’s publication...
