Landfill Tax: Fraud
The question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of HMRC’s attempts to tackle landfill tax fraud on unauthorised illegal waste sites; and how much money has been recovered from prosecutions in the last 3 years.
Answered by Dan Tomlinson
The Government applies Landfill Tax to disposals made at sites without an environmental disposal permit (unauthorised waste sites). This aims to deter non-compliance by making the illegal disposal of waste less profitable, and reinforcing the principle of “polluter pays”.
In the last 5 years, HMRC Landfill Tax compliance activities have generated a compliance yield of £1.3 billion.
HMRC have conducted over 250 compliance interventions over the last three years at illegal unauthorised waste sites, generating approximately £4.5 million in compliance yield.
HMRC also works closely with environmental regulators to identify and tackle disposals of unauthorised waste.
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