§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many cases of evasions of payments of(a) income tax and (b) other tax have been discovered in each of the last five years; and what has been the value of the revenue recovered in each category. [8306]
§ Mr. Jack[holding answer 10 December 1996]: I refer the hon. Member to the written answer which I gave him on 26 October 1995, Official Report, columns 727–28, which covered the years 1989–90 to 1994–95.
The equivalent figures for 1995–96 are:
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Income tax investigations Other investigations Yield from counter-evasion work (£ million) 57,211 9,106 1,309 Splitting the yield figures for each of the last five years between income tax and other taxes could be done only at disproportionate cost.