{"id":17014,"date":"2012-08-21T07:20:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T06:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=17014"},"modified":"2012-08-21T07:20:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T06:20:30","slug":"if-the-revenue-have-closed-down-tax-avoidance-schemes-worth-200-million-in-a-month-the-tax-gap-is-bigger-than-they-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/08\/21\/if-the-revenue-have-closed-down-tax-avoidance-schemes-worth-200-million-in-a-month-the-tax-gap-is-bigger-than-they-say\/","title":{"rendered":"If the Revenue have closed down tax avoidance schemes worth \u00c2\u00a3200 million in a month the tax gap is bigger than they say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-19318217\" target=\"_blank\">BBC have reported:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\">HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has trumpeted three victories in the courts last month against complex tax avoidance schemes.<\/p>\n<p>The Revenue said the decisions had potentially stopped as much as \u00a3200m being lost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I'm obviously delighted that the Revenue is winning.<\/p>\n<p>But let's remember in September 2011 they said all tax avoidance a year for income tax, national insurance and capital gains tax combined was \u00a31.4 billion a year. And I refuse o\u00a0believe they have closed down one seventh of all tax avoidance in the last month, so somewhere their figures don't stack. Either these schemes were worth much less than \u00a3200 million or the tax gap is much bigger than they say.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it may also be both. But what's not possible is that\u00a0their claims are right, as I've said long and often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC have reported: HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has trumpeted three victories in the courts last month against complex tax avoidance schemes. The Revenue<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/08\/21\/if-the-revenue-have-closed-down-tax-avoidance-schemes-worth-200-million-in-a-month-the-tax-gap-is-bigger-than-they-say\/\"><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":[107,10,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmrc","category-tax-avoidance","category-tax-gap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17014","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=17014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}