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date	05/02/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue the Government has raised through tackling tax avoidance, evasion and non-compliance since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	13088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2024 answer text <p>Every year, HMRC measures the impact of its activity to tackle tax avoidance, evasion and non-compliance through its performance measure of compliance yield. Compliance yield is HMRC’s term for money that would have been lost to the Exchequer if not for our compliance work. This is published each year in HMRC’s Annual Report and Accounts.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmrcs-annual-report-and-accounts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmrcs-annual-report-and-accounts</a></p><p> </p><p>Compliance yield since 2010 is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Compliance yield</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023-24 (to Q3)</p></td><td><p>£24,026m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022-23</p></td><td><p>£34,031m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>£30,792m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>£30,450m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£36,948m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£34,070m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£30,292m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£28,855m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£26,607m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£26,558m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£23,926m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£20,722m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£18,627m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£13,900m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>More about the different components that are included in the reported amount can be found in the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmrc-annual-report-and-accounts-2022-to-2023-technical-notes/hmrc-compliance-yield-technical-note" target="_blank">HMRC Compliance Yield: technical note</a>, that is published each year alongside the Annual Reports and Accounts.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 09/02/2024 11:43:04 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1652727

registered interest
date	13/07/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the level of tax (a) evasion and (b) avoidance in each of the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Claudia Webbe
uin	193963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2023 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) estimates the size of the tax gap, which is the difference between the amount of tax that should theoretically be paid to HMRC and the amount that is actually paid. The latest tax gap estimate for 2021-2022 is a record low of 4.8 per cent of total theoretical tax liabilities. The tax gap statistics are published annually and are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/measuring-tax-gaps" target="_blank"><em>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/measuring-tax-gaps</em></a><em>.</em></p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 18/07/2023 14:34:28 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4848 label Biography information for Claudia Webbe

1146857

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps his Department has taken to reduce tax (a) avoidance and (b) evasion.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Giles Watling
uin	912456
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text This government has taken significant action, including introducing 100 new measures tackling tax avoidance, evasion and other forms of non-compliance, since 2010, securing and protecting £200bn that would have otherwise gone unpaid and helping to bring the UK’s tax gap to a near record low of 5.6%. answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 01/10/2019 15:57:52 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling