PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Tobacco: Smuggling (25 November 2014)
Question Asked
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate has he made of the cost to the public purse of organised crime associated with the trade in illicit tobacco.
Asked by:
Mark Garnier (Conservative)
Asked by:
Mark Garnier (Conservative)
Answer
The most recent estimates of the total revenue losses associated with the tobacco illicit market were published on 16 October in the report ‘Tobacco tax gap estimates 2013-14’.
This can be accessed on the HMRC website:
It is not possible to disaggregate losses to organised crime from total losses.
Answered by:
Priti Patel (Conservative)
1 December 2014
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