§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is his estimate of the annual loss revenue to the Treasury by (a) tax evasion, (b) tax avoidance, (c) loss of revenue due to unemployment and loss of income tax, (d) loss of tax from firms due to closing down temporarily and redundancy and (e) due to loss of tax from bankruptcies.
§ Mr. Peter Rees[pursuant to his reply, 16 April 1981, c. 221]: I regret that it is not possible to make any reliable estimates of the amounts of tax lost.