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Motorcycles: Excise Duties and VAT

Commons · Question 78061 · Tabled 10 Oct 2025 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 17 Oct 2025

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Asked by Sammy Wilson

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the (a) VAT and (b) customs duty lost as a result of (i) undervaluation and (ii) misclassification of (A) imported off-road motorcycles and (B) related parts in each of the l

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Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 17 Oct 2025

HMRC estimates the size of the 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 published annually and are a...