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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Treasury
Tabled
23 Jan 2026
Target answer date
27 Jan 2026
Answer
2 Feb 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 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.

  2. 27 Jan 2026

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  3. 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 ...

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