Written Question·Treasury·UIN 78061

Motorcycles: Excise Duties and VAT

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 17 October 2025

Question

Sammy Wilson

Democratic Unionist PartyEast Antrim

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the (a) VAT and (b) customs duty lost as a result of (i) undervaluation and (ii) misclassification of (A) imported off-road motorcycles and (B) related parts in each of the l

Answer

Dan Tomlinson
HMRC estimates the size of the tax gap, which is the difference between the amount of tax that should, in theory, be paid to HMRC, and what is actually paid. The tax gap statistics and details of the estimate methodologies are published annually and are a...

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