{"id":26919,"date":"2014-12-04T09:55:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T09:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=26919"},"modified":"2014-12-04T09:55:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T09:55:56","slug":"hmrc-claim-the-vat-gap-is-down-but-how-do-they-know-when-most-vat-inspections-have-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/12\/04\/hmrc-claim-the-vat-gap-is-down-but-how-do-they-know-when-most-vat-inspections-have-ended\/","title":{"rendered":"HMRC claim the VAT gap is down but how do they know when most VAT inspections have ended?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amongst the many statistical releases made yesterday by HMRC was a new estimate of the VAT gap for the UK, this being the first estimate for the tax year 2013-14. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/382069\/est-vat-gap-2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">This is as follows<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-09.44.06.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26920\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-09.44.06.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-12-04 at 09.44.06\" width=\"525\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-09.44.06.png 570w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-09.44.06-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-09.44.06-492x300.png 492w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-09.44.06-200x121.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let me contrast this to earlier years, as taken from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/364009\/4382_Measuring_Tax_Gaps_2014_IW_v4B_accessible_20141014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the latest HMRC tax gap report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-09.52.41.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26921\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-09.52.41.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-12-04 at 09.52.41\" width=\"525\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-09.52.41.png 713w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-09.52.41-300x104.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-09.52.41-200x69.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, at a time when HMRC have virtually abandoned VAT inspections for small businesses, the number of such businesses is rising and the scope for abuse is growing apparently the VAT gap is falling.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say I find the plausibility of that remote. I'd even ask, how do they know? But I present the facts as HMRC want to state them for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amongst the many statistical releases made yesterday by HMRC was a new estimate of the VAT gap for the UK, this being the first estimate<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/12\/04\/hmrc-claim-the-vat-gap-is-down-but-how-do-they-know-when-most-vat-inspections-have-ended\/\"><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-26919","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\/26919","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=26919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}