date:Aug 30, 2012
as 1.2bn.
Duty evasion
HMRC's drive to tackle alcohol duty evasion is being seriously hampered by a lack of information.
Bacon said it wasunacceptablethat HMRC has still to produce an estimate of the tax gap for wine, despite a commitment to this committees predecessors to do so.
Without reliable information about the scale of duty evasion for each category of alcohol (beer, wine and spirits) the HMRCcannot tailor its approach to target its efforts to tackle evasion to maximise value for mon