The 2012/13 tax gap was £34bn, or 6.8% of tax liabilities, according to newly released HMRC figures, which show a small rise on the £33bn (6.6%) in the previous year (revised down from an initial £35bn).
Revised data for previous year means a fall of just 0.1%
It is time for a general tax amnesty
ED HAGGER explains how HMRC calculate the tax gap and why a campaigner’s alternative estimation is misleading