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 TomlinsonHM 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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