Question follow-through · 40306
Corporation Tax: Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the amount of corporation tax lost due to tax (a) evasion and (b) avoidance during the current financial year to date.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 21 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 26 Mar 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the amount of corporation tax lost due to tax (a) evasion and (b) avoidance during the current financial year to date.
26 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Mar 2025
Answer published
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 are published annually. The latest estimates are ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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