Electronic Commerce: VAT
(asked on 22nd December 2015) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have conducted any test purchases in online markets to provide evidence of the evasion of VAT.
This question was answered on 8th January 2016
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has a range of operational activity in place to tackle evasion and to establish evidence of the scale of the problem. HMRC does not routinely carry out test purchases through online platforms.