{"id":42387,"date":"2018-07-03T09:59:47","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T08:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=42387"},"modified":"2018-07-03T09:59:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T08:59:47","slug":"the-uks-vat-gap-my-evidence-to-the-treasury-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/07\/03\/the-uks-vat-gap-my-evidence-to-the-treasury-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK&#8217;s VAT gap &#8211; my evidence to the Treasury Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gave<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/06\/28\/vat-fraud-my-presentation-to-the-eu-parliament-this-morning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> evidence to the EU parliament last week on the VAT tax gap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This morning our parliament has published evidence I submitted to them in May on the same issue.<a href=\"http:\/\/data.parliament.uk\/writtenevidence\/committeeevidence.svc\/evidencedocument\/treasury-committee\/securing-the-tax-base\/written\/83806.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> It is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was one of only two UK academics to submit evidence on this vital issue.<\/p>\n<p>I do sometimes wonder, what do the rest do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave evidence to the EU parliament last week on the VAT tax gap. This morning our parliament has published evidence I submitted to them<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/07\/03\/the-uks-vat-gap-my-evidence-to-the-treasury-committee\/\"><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":[107,10,33,55,50,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmrc","category-tax-avoidance","category-tax-compliance","category-tax-evasion","category-tax-gap","category-vat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42387","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=42387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}