{"id":65593,"date":"2022-11-11T07:57:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T07:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=65593"},"modified":"2022-11-11T07:57:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T07:57:59","slug":"it-really-is-time-that-the-government-got-serious-about-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/11\/11\/it-really-is-time-that-the-government-got-serious-about-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"It really is time that the government got serious about fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend Prem (Lord) Sikka has drawn my attention to this question he asked in the House of Lords:<\/p>\n

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This is the answer he was provided with:<\/p>\n

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There are so many questions that this poses. First, how are the figures for HMRC so utterly inconsistent with the tax gap?<\/p>\n

Second, why is the detection rate so abysmally small, at less than 1%?<\/p>\n

Third, what is being to improve this?<\/p>\n

Fourth, why isn't this issue, plus the tax gap, the focus of attention if the government really thinks it needs to find \u00a350 billion of savings?<\/p>\n

It really does feel that the government has paid too little attention to this issue for far too long, as remains true of the tax gap about which I have been writing for longer than most people given that the issue was virtually unknown in the UK when I first published a report on it, way back in 2006.<\/p>\n

It really is time that the government got serious about these issues. There is no evidence that it ever has been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My friend Prem (Lord) Sikka has drawn my attention to this question he asked in the House of Lords: This is the answer he was
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