{"id":16234,"date":"2012-06-29T09:15:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T08:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=16234"},"modified":"2012-06-29T09:15:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T08:15:11","slug":"for-those-who-argue-vat-is-simple-to-collect-a-sobering-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/06\/29\/for-those-who-argue-vat-is-simple-to-collect-a-sobering-message\/","title":{"rendered":"For those who argue VAT is simple to collect, a sobering message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This table<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmrc.gov.uk\/about\/annual-report-accounts-1112.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> comes from HMRC's 2011-12 accounts<\/a>, just published:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-shot-2012-06-29-at-08.56.24.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16235\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-06-29 at 08.56.24\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-shot-2012-06-29-at-08.56.24.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-shot-2012-06-29-at-08.56.24.png 675w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-shot-2012-06-29-at-08.56.24-300x154.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note which tax has by far the biggest write offs: it's VAT.<\/p>\n<p>OK, 200 million was missing trader fraud, but that does not explain it all, by a long way. This tax is inherently\u00a0difficult\u00a0to collect. And 500,000 missing companies don't help. Despite which the tax simplification people place their faith in VAT as it's \"unavoidable\" they say.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly is not. And especially not when the permanent staff are\u00a0draining\u00a0away,\u00a0rapidly;y, as this table shows:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-shot-2012-06-29-at-09.13.10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16237\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-06-29 at 09.13.10\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-shot-2012-06-29-at-09.13.10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-shot-2012-06-29-at-09.13.10.png 675w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-shot-2012-06-29-at-09.13.10-300x83.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The casualisation of HMRC continues and revenues are threatened as a result.<\/p>\n<p>That can only be described as\u00a0mismanagement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This table comes from HMRC&#8217;s 2011-12 accounts, just published: Note which tax has by far the biggest write offs: it&#8217;s VAT. OK, 200 million was<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/06\/29\/for-those-who-argue-vat-is-simple-to-collect-a-sobering-message\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmrc","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}