Tobacco: Excise Duties
Commons · Question 67830 · Tabled 15 Jul 2025 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Rosindell
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2025 to Question 60427 on Tobacco: Excise Duties, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of falling cigarette and hand rolling tobacco receipts on the
Answer
Answered by James Murray, 23 Jul 2025
HMRC recently published an updated version of their Measuring Tax Gaps publication which now includes tax gap estimates up to 2023/24. The illicit market volume for cigarettes is shown in Table 3.13 and the total consumption volume is shown in Table 3.12....