Written Question·Treasury·UIN 69751

Smoking and Tobacco: Excise Duties

Tabled: 22 July 2025
Answered: 5 September 2025

Question

Andrew Rosindell

Reform UK — Romford

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make a comparative assessment of (a) the recent HMRC tax gap estimates for tobacco excise duty with (b) the data in UCL’s report entitled Trends in smoking prevalence and socio-economic inequalities acro

Answer

Dan Tomlinson
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) estimates the size of the UK 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 ...
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