Labour party publishes plan to close the tax gap
The Labour party has published their plan to close the tax gap – the gap between tax owed and tax paid – which is estimated at £36 billion. The plan broadly proposes to do this by boosting tax compliance. Labour plan to be able to raise up to an additional £5 billion a year as a result of their proposed measures. They anticipate that £1 spent on compliance activity will result in £9 of revenue and so reckon they will need to invest £555 million per year to achieve £5 billion of revenue. Some of the measures they propose introducing [...]