by Claire Aston | May 15, 2024
Multiple delays to the publication of the offshore tax gap statistics, now a full year late TaxWatch had to use FOI powers to discover that the new date for this work is now June 2024 (gov.uk still shows Autumn 2023) Data on which this will be based is from CRS...
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 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 | Aug 25, 2022
We have recently had an op-ed published in the magazine HMRC Enquiries, Investigations and Powers. Below is the text in full. The Tax Fraud Gap The pressure on HMRC to tackle tax fraud is immense. After rolling out multiple coronavirus support schemes in a fast and...
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...
