by George Turner | Jun 25, 2019
TaxWatch’s Director, George Turner, wrote an op-ed for the Independent setting out why the government’s recent Tax Gap figures should be treated with caution. The article sets out how the government’s estimates of tax avoidance vastly underestimate...
by George Turner | Jun 20, 2019
HMRC has this morning published its latest estimate of uncollected taxes, the “Tax Gap”. It shows that on the HMRC methodology the amount of tax uncollected went up by £2bn in 2018 to £35bn. This is in cash terms the highest on record and an increase of...
by George Turner | May 1, 2019
The Tax Gap The Tax Gap is the difference between the amount of tax that should be collected, and the amount of tax actually collected. It is the sum total of all of the evasion, avoidance and non-payment that leads to the loss of tax revenue to the government. The UK...
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 Alex Dunnagan | Sep 16, 2021
An analysis of HMRC’s latest Tax Gap estimates by TaxWatch has found that the amount of tax lost to fraud in 2020 was at least £15.2bn. The figures produced by TaxWatch are based on an evaluation of HMRC’s analysis of taxpayer behaviours underlying their annual...
