To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much money has been lost to the public purse as a result of non-payment of VAT from (a) EU and (b) non-EU trade in the last available year.
Answered on
27 April 2018
The information requested is not available.
HM Revenue and Custom’s (HMRC) latest estimates of excise and VAT revenue lost in 2015-16 can be found in the summary of the ‘Measuring tax gaps’ publication, available at www.gov.uk/government/statistics/measuring-tax-gaps. Estimates of the amount of VAT lost to Missing Trader Intra-Community (MTIC) fraud are available in Chapter 2 of the same publication.
Answered by
Treasury