British Overseas Territories: Tax Avoidance

(asked on 14th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has made an estimate of the scale of tax avoidance in the overseas territories.


Answered by
Alan Duncan Portrait
Alan Duncan
This question was answered on 20th November 2017

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) only estimates tax lost to avoidance within the United Kingdom. HMRC does not estimate tax losses outside its jurisdiction.

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