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<p>Waste crime – including landfill tax fraud - is a blight on local communities,
harms the environment and undermines legitimate businesses operating in the waste
sector. The government is committed to tackling this issue, through a multi-agency
response led by Defra and the Joint Unit for Waste Crime.</p><p> </p><p>The government
regularly publishes an assessment of the tax gap across the tax system. HMRC has collected
and protected over £800m in additional Landfill Tax since 2018 with ever closer collaboration
between government departments to make this possible and lay the foundations for further
strengthening the regime.</p><p><em> </em></p><p>As part of next steps on the Landfill
Tax Review, the government will consider the impact of any potential changes to the
tax on Landfill Tax fraud, evasion and waste crime and the interaction of potential
changes with upcoming environmental regulatory reforms designed to improve compliance
and tackle waste crime.</p>
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