Written Question·Treasury·UIN 56669

Sub-letting: Tax Avoidance

Tabled: 2 June 2025
Answered: 9 June 2025

Question

Rachel Blake

Labour (Co-op)Cities of London and Westminster

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an assessment of the amount of revenue lost through tax avoidance in relation to illegal subletting of homes as short-term lets in each of the last five years.

Answer

James Murray
HM Revenue and Customs (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 pub...

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