UK Parliament Launches Tax Inquiries on VAT, Tax Avoidance and Evasion, and the Conduct of Tax Enquiries and the Resolution of Tax Disputes

The UK Parliament Treasury Committee and Treasury Sub-Committee have launched three tax inquiries that are open for public submissions. The three inquiries are as follows:

VAT inquiry

The Treasury Committee invites written submissions addressing any of the following questions:

VAT and the tax gap

• What are the root causes of the UK VAT gap and how might they be addressed?
• Is government policy-making sufficiently responsive when a weakness in the UK VAT regime is identified?
• Are there w…