Question follow-through · 56669
Sub-letting: Tax Avoidance
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.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jun 2025
Question tabled
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.
4 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 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 and details of the estimate methodologies are pub...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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