Question follow-through · 78062
Motorcycles: Excise Duties and VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the effectiveness of HMRC's approach to preventing (a) VAT and (b) duty evasion in the off-road motorcycle industry.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 17 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the effectiveness of HMRC's approach to preventing (a) VAT and (b) duty evasion in the off-road motorcycle industry.
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Oct 2025
Answer published
HMRC collected a record £858.9 billion in taxes in 2024/25, an increase of 3.7% from the year before, which included £171.0 billion in VAT. HMRC has a strong track record in tackling all kinds of non-compliance. HMRC takes a risk-based and intelligence-le...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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