Smoking and Tobacco: Excise Duties
Commons · Question 69751 · Tabled 22 Jul 2025 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 5 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Rosindell
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make a comparative assessment of (a) the recent HMRC tax gap estimates for tobacco excise duty with (b) the data in UCL’s report entitled Trends in smoking prevalence and socio-economic inequalities acro
Answer
Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 5 Sep 2025
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) estimates the size of the UK tax gap, which is the difference between the amount of tax that should, in theory, be paid to HMRC, and what is actually paid. The tax gap statistics and details of the estimate methodologies are ...