Tobacco: Smuggling
(asked on 9th November 2015) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the illegal trade of cigarettes in Northern Ireland.
This question was answered on 16th November 2015
Estimates of the volume and total revenue losses associated with the tobacco illicit market are published in ‘Tobacco Tax Gap Estimates 2014 to 2015’.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tobacco-tax-gap-estimates
These estimates cannot be broken down on a regional basis.
The methodology for producing the estimates are provided in the ‘Measuring Tax Gaps 2015 edition: Methodological Annex’.