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Smuggling: Northern Ireland
David Simpson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate his Department has made of the amount of revenue lost as a result of illegal trading in (a) cigarettes, (b) spirits, (c) diesel, (d) petrol and (e) counterfeit goods in Northern Ireland in each of the last two years. [313643]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The total revenue losses as a result of illegal trading in cigarettes and spirits are not estimated separately for Northern Ireland. Figures for the UK were published by HMRC in 'Measuring Tax Gaps - 2009' in November 2009. The two most recent years covered were 2006-07 and 2007-08. This publication is available in the House of Commons Library.
David Simpson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the size of the illicit market for (a) cigarettes, (b) spirits, (c) diesel and (d) petrol in Northern Ireland in each of the last two years. [313646]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The size of the illicit markets for cigarettes and spirits is not estimated separately for Northern Ireland. Figures for the UK were published by HMRC in 'Measuring Tax Gaps-2009' in November 2009. The two most recent years covered were 2006-07 and 2007-08. This publication is available in the House of Commons Library.
Stamp Duty Land Tax
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of the stamp duty holiday; and how many property transactions did not attract stamp duty during the holiday which would have done so outside the holiday period in (a) each government office region in England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland. [311705]
Mr. Timms: The estimated cost of the stamp duty land tax holiday in 2008-09 and 2009-10 up to 3 September 2009, the original date for the end of the holiday, was published in the 2008 pre-Budget report, available at:
A revised estimate for the cost of the stamp duty land tax holiday in 2009-10, to 3 September 2009, was published in table A2 of Budget 2009 available at:
The cost of extending the holiday to 31 December 2009 was also published in table A1 of Budget 2009 available at:
Estimated numbers of transactions falling in the price range between £125,000 and £175,000 which would have attracted stamp duty land tax without the holiday relief, in the period between 3 September 2008 and the end of December 2009, are given in the following table:
| Number of transactions in each region sold for between £125,000 and £175,000 in the period from September 2008 to December 2009 inclusive. | |
| Region | Number |
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