§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the cost to public funds of value-added tax missing trader fraud in each of the last four years.[22038]
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§ Mr. BoatengI refer the hon. Gentleman to page 19 of the Customs and Excise paper "Measuring Indirect Tax Fraud" that was published on 27 November 2001 and a copy of which is in the Library of the House. This gives fraud estimates for 1999–2000 and 2000–01. There are no estimates for any earlier years.