Written Statement·Commons·HM Treasury·HCWS289

Combatting fuel duty fraud - evaluation of the first six months of new fuel marker

4 November 2015

Damian Hinds

The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury

Conservative

Statement

The Government is committed to tackling fuel fraud. HMRC’s oils fraud strategy has seen the UK tax gap for fuels reduce from £1.5bn in 2002 to around £100m in 2013-14. In Northern Ireland, where this issue has been a particular problem, the illicit market...