Question follow-through · 108083
Wealth: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much and what proportion of the wealthy tax gap HMRC attributes to (a) Capital Gains Tax and (b) Inheritance Tax for each financial year from 2017-18 to 2024-25.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 23 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 27 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 2 Feb 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much and what proportion of the wealthy tax gap HMRC attributes to (a) Capital Gains Tax and (b) Inheritance Tax for each financial year from 2017-18 to 2024-25.
27 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Feb 2026
Answer published
Wealthy tax gap estimates are published in Measuring the Tax Gap 2025 for 2005-06 to 2023-24. There are no estimates for 2024-25 at this time, these will be published in future tax gap publications. We use Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax (CGT) and National ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Taxation: Advisory Services
4 Mar 2026 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to help ensure the accuracy of information provided by tax advisers.
Business: Taxation
2 Jun 2026 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many large business tax disputes have been submitted to international arbitration in the last 5 years.
Treasury: Conflict of Interests
9 Jul 2026 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in how many instances her Department has put mitigations for conflict of interest in place for (a) Ministers and (b) senior officials each year since 1 June 2024.