{"id":45656,"date":"2019-07-20T09:31:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T08:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=45656"},"modified":"2019-07-20T09:31:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T08:31:09","slug":"hmrc-has-to-get-its-statistics-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/07\/20\/hmrc-has-to-get-its-statistics-right\/","title":{"rendered":"HMRC has to get its statistics right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FairTaxMark\/status\/1152247938233577472?s=03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fair Tax Mark tweeted yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hmmm&#x1f914;<\/p>\n<p>HMRC's Annual Report just out.<\/p>\n<p>Curious how the UK's official \"Tax Gap\" stays pretty much flat year-in year-out, but HMRC say in this publication that the compliance yield they realise leaps every year: up \u00a313.3bn (64%), to \u00a334bn, since 2012-13.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The explanation is obvious, of course. As I have long suggested, the tax gap is seriously understated because it is very largely estimated in \u00a0way that guarantees that.<\/p>\n<p>And as I have also long stated the compliance yield is overstated by including exaggerated claims of tax saved in future years that no one knows would have arisen.<\/p>\n<p>The result is this absurdity.<\/p>\n<p>I hope a new HMRC chief executive might sort both or they will have to soon declare themselves redundant for over-collecting tax, when that is emphatically not true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fair Tax Mark tweeted yesterday: Hmmm&#x1f914; HMRC&#8217;s Annual Report just out. Curious how the UK&#8217;s official &#8220;Tax Gap&#8221; stays pretty much flat year-in year-out,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/07\/20\/hmrc-has-to-get-its-statistics-right\/\"><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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmrc","category-tax-avoidance","category-tax-compliance","category-tax-evasion","category-tax-gap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45656","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=45656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}