{"id":66023,"date":"2022-12-16T08:45:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T08:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=66023"},"modified":"2022-12-16T08:45:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T08:45:04","slug":"hmrc-is-not-closing-the-tax-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/12\/16\/hmrc-is-not-closing-the-tax-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"HMRC is not closing the tax gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/collateral.prmax.co.uk\/collateral\/199511.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Public Accounts Committee<\/a> has noted failures in HMRC's work in closing the tax gap this morning due to staff being diverted to tackle Covid fraud. As they noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>HMRC has conducted substantially fewer enquiries into suspected non-compliance since the pandemic began. It closed 29% (103,000) fewer cases in 2020-21 compared with the previous year and opened 32% fewer (114,000).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As serious is how long investigations are taking. These are now very often far too protracted.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is easy, of course. The PAC estimate the cost of this is \u00a39bn. That's more than twice the cost of running HMRC a year. Just recruit more staff. Yet again, it's not rocket science, but the bleedin' obvious is not too regularly mentioned these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Accounts Committee has noted failures in HMRC&#8217;s work in closing the tax gap this morning due to staff being diverted to tackle Covid<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/12\/16\/hmrc-is-not-closing-the-tax-gap\/\"><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":[107,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmrc","category-tax-gap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66023","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=66023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}