{"id":24290,"date":"2014-03-05T09:31:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T09:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=24290"},"modified":"2014-03-05T09:31:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T09:31:35","slug":"the-vat-tax-gap-is-up-and-that-has-to-be-the-consequence-of-fewer-staff-to-collect-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/03\/05\/the-vat-tax-gap-is-up-and-that-has-to-be-the-consequence-of-fewer-staff-to-collect-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The VAT tax gap is up &#8211;  and that has to be the consequence of fewer staff to collect it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HMRC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/263638\/est-vat-gap-2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">have this week given publicity to their initial estimate of the VAT tax gap for 2012 - 13.<\/a> \u00a0This is their estimate of the amount of VAT that should have been paid if UK law had been complied with compared to the amount of VAT that was actually received by them in that year. \u00a0This is what it looks like:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-Shot-2014-03-05-at-09.26.15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-24291\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-03-05 at 09.26.15\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-Shot-2014-03-05-at-09.26.15.png\" width=\"534\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-Shot-2014-03-05-at-09.26.15.png 593w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-Shot-2014-03-05-at-09.26.15-241x300.png 241w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-Shot-2014-03-05-at-09.26.15-181x225.png 181w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-Shot-2014-03-05-at-09.26.15-106x132.png 106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0I will have a lot more to say on this issue shortly. \u00a0Suffice for now to say that the VAT \u00a0tax gap \u00a0has increased and \u00a0That cannot be down to changes in VAT rates on this occasion: this must be down to inadequate resources.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The simple fact is, you cannot \u00a0sacks staff at HMRC \u00a0without consequences. This \u00a0increase in the VAT tax gap is one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HMRC have this week given publicity to their initial estimate of the VAT tax gap for 2012 &#8211; 13. \u00a0This is their estimate of the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/03\/05\/the-vat-tax-gap-is-up-and-that-has-to-be-the-consequence-of-fewer-staff-to-collect-it\/\"><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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-gap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24290","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=24290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}