Info on Tax - government recieves, where can i obtain info?

[heyyo]

im looking for how much ?income tax each year the government recieves
how much tax is lost each year through evasion?

ive tried googling, but can't find anything...

For another thread I did stumble across an estimate of tax avoidance - put at £25bn a year. See if I can find it again.

EDIT: Not found my original link but this was quite interesting (and will get a few people going I'm sure! ) But afore they do - yeah, newspaper sources!

"Tax avoidance & fraud
When it comes to swindling, "dole cheats" aren't the biggest drain on the UK economy:

Estimated annual cost (£ billions):
†¢ Corporate tax avoidance: 85
†¢ Business fraud: 14
†¢ Government fraud in Whitehall: 5
†¢ Tobacco smuggling: 3.5
†¢ VAT fraud on mobile phones: 2.5
†¢ Total welfare fraud: 2
†¢ Jobseekers Allowance fraud: 0.19
†¢ Bulldozer smuggling: 0.15

(Sources, respectively: Guardian, 12/4/02; BBC Radio 4, 'Today', 23/8/01; BBC Radio 4 News, 1996; Guardian 17/12/99; BBC Radio 4, 'Today', 3/7/03; DWP, 2003; The Informal Economy, by Lord Grabiner, March 2000; Guardian, 25/8/01)"

Bulldozer smuggling?!

http://www.anxietyculture.com/stats.htm#tax

Some other interesting if debatable - I'm saying that just not to be shot down! - points on that site.

[SMHarman]

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/docume...ther_index.cfm

£25bn figure for tax avoidance in this: http://www.taxjustice.net/all/pdf/tax_optimisation.pdf

Not sure if this is really the sort of thing you're looking for as covers corporation tax rather than simply income tax dodges (but those lines are very blurred anyway).