Question follow-through · 5137
Tax Evasion: Small Businesses
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of developing a system to tackle trends in the level of tax evasion from small businesses.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 10 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 18 Sept 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of developing a system to tackle trends in the level of tax evasion from small businesses.
12 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Government is committed to tackling all forms of non-compliance, including evasion. Each year HMRC estimates the size of the tax gap, and the latest published tax gap (2022-23) was 4.8% of theoretical liabilities, or £39.8bn. The element attributable ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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