HMRC Was TOLD About the Barber Shops — "IT'S A MYTH." Now It's £60 BILLION.

The Treasury Select Committee opened its investigation into tax dodging on Britain's high streets — and heard the tax gap has hit £60 billion, up 26% in a single year. Experts described snail farms, fake prayer rooms and "phoenixing" shops that vanish before the tax bill arrives — while a law against enablers of tax evasion has produced one prosecution in nine years. John Glen, Bobby Dean, Julie Minns and Dame Siobhain McDonagh pressed the panel on why HMRC dismissed it all as "a myth." Subscribe for what Parliament actually says — every day.