| Heading: |
Sub-letting: Tax Avoidance |
| Question ID: |
1808400 |
| UIN: |
56669 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-02 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5257 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Rachel Blake
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| Asking Member handle: |
RNBlake
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@RNBlake
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an assessment of the amount of revenue lost through tax avoidance in relation to illegal subletting of homes as short-term lets in each of the last five years. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-09 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4797 |
| Answering Member display name: |
James Murray
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| Answering Member handle: |
jamesmurray_ldn
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@jamesmurray_ldn
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Answer text: |
HM Revenue and Customs (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 pub... |
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| Answering body ID: |
14 |
| Answering body name: |
Treasury |
| Tweeted: |
true |