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	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	VAT: Tax Evasion
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much potential revenue they estimate the Government is losing each year through carousel or missing trader intra-community fraud.
	tabling member printed	Lord Faulkner of Worcester
	uin	HL5614
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text I refer the Hon Member to the answer that I gave on 4 December to the Rt Hon. Baroness Primarolo (HL3403). The information is also available in Chapter 2 of the ‘Measuring Tax Gaps’ publication.[1]<p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/measuring-tax-gaps" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/measuring-tax-gaps</a></p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 06/03/2018 12:43:48 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	2472 label Biography information for Lord Faulkner of Worcester

792463

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	VAT: Tax Evasion
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made for each of the last six financial years of the revenue lost as a consequence of carousel fraud.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Primarolo
	uin	HL3403
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>The latest available estimates of the amount of VAT lost to Missing Trader Intra-Community (MTIC) fraud for the last five years are published annually in the Chapter 2 of the ‘Measuring tax gaps’ publication<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup>. For 2015-16, this was estimated at £0.5-1 billion.</p><p> </p><p>Further ‘Measuring tax gaps’ online tables are published giving the estimate of the VAT lost to MTIC fraud since 2005-06<sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup>.</p><p> </p><p>The MTIC tax gap estimates includes multiple types of fraud not traditional carousel fraud alone.</p><p> </p><p>The estimates are published as a range to reflect the uncertainty in the estimation of the MTIC tax gap.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/measuring-tax-gaps" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/measuring-tax-gaps</a></p><p> </p><p>[2] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/measuring-tax-gaps-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/measuring-tax-gaps-tables</a></p> answering member printed Lord Bates attachment 1 file name HMRC-measuring-tax-gaps-2017.pdf title HMRC Measuring Tax Gaps 2 file name Copy of HMRC-Measuring-tax-gaps-2017-tables.xlsx title HMRC Measuring Tax Gaps Table question first answered 04/12/2017 15:07:35 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	217 label Biography information for Baroness Primarolo

775943

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	VAT: Tax Evasion
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what considerations HMRC takes into account when deciding whether or not to pursue a person for VAT evasion.
	tabling member printed	Lord Lucas
	uin	HL2351
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>HMRC always pursues known VAT evasion. HMRC employs a wide range of civil and criminal law approaches to tackle the full spectrum of wrong-doing, taking the most appropriate course of action based on all the intelligence and information available.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 06/11/2017 14:46:58 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	1879 label Biography information for Lord Lucas

439767

	registered interest
	date	22/12/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	VAT: Tax Evasion
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of their obligation under EU law to prevent VAT evasion.
	tabling member printed	Lord Lucas
	uin	HL4820
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2016 answer text <p>In considering fraud against European own resources, including VAT collection, the European Court recently clarified in the <em>Taricco</em> judgment that Member States are obliged under EU law (Article 325 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union) to have in place effective and dissuasive criminal penalties against VAT fraud. The UK applies a full range of penalties to address various behaviours from dishonesty and deliberate inaccuracies through to criminal prosecutions for VAT offences.</p><br /> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 08/01/2016 13:58:00 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
	tabling member	1879 label Biography information for Lord Lucas