{"id":592809,"date":"2025-11-25T12:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/592809\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:37:14","slug":"brexit-is-costing-the-uk-up-to-90-billion-a-year-in-lost-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/592809\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit Is Costing The UK Up To \u00a390 Billion A Year In Lost Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Pro-Europe campaigners and tourists during the regular anti-Brexit 'rejoin the EU' protest at the junction of Parliament Street and Parliament Square in Westminster, on 18th June 2025, in Westminster, London, England. \" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/12ab152eae55ba602e554cc2444c482b.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pro-Europe campaigners and tourists during the regular anti-Brexit &#8216;rejoin the EU&#8217; protest at the junction of Parliament Street and Parliament Square in Westminster, on 18th June 2025, in Westminster, London, England. Richard Baker via In Pictures via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/news\/brexit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Brexit;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Brexit <\/a>is costing the UK up to \u00a390 billion a year in lost tax revenue, new analysis has revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Treasury missed out on \u00a3250 million a day in 2025, according to research published by the House of Commons library.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A recent study by US think-tank the National Bureau of Economic Research found that the British economy is between 6% and 8% smaller than it would have been had Brexit not happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the House of Commons library, that resulted in between \u00a365bn and \u00a390bn less tax being paid to the government in 2024\/25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It also found that the average Brit is between \u00a32,700 and \u00a33,700 worse off as a result of the UK\u2019s decision to leave the EU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The research was carried out on behalf of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/news\/liberal-democrats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lib Dems;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Lib Dems<\/a>, whose leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/news\/ed-davey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ed Davey;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ed Davey<\/a>\u00a0said: \u201cThe most dishonest campaign in our history said it would save us \u00a3350 million a week, but Brexit actually cost us \u00a3250 million a day in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThat is why we have the highest taxes ever, that is why we have sky-high bills, that is why we have a cost of living crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWorst of all, Labour know the cost of Brexit but refuse to do anything about it. My message ahead of the Budget is clear: fix our broken relationship with Europe to end the cost of living crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The findings come just days after former Tory prime minister John Major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/former-tory-pm-brands-brexit-an-act-of-collective-folly-in-outspoken-attack_uk_691d64f7e4b073def3eee822\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:branded Brexit \u201can act of collective folly\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">branded Brexit \u201can act of collective folly\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He said: \u201cIt left our country poorer, weaker and divorced from the richest free trade market that history has ever seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cNational interest was brushed aside by false hopes and promises. False hopes and promises that even a cabinet dominated by frontline Brexit enthusiasts was unable to deliver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pro-Europe campaigners and tourists during the regular anti-Brexit &#8216;rejoin the EU&#8217; protest at the junction of Parliament Street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,7779,184874,80883,186568,16,15,3069],"class_list":{"0":"post-592809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-house-of-commons","16":"tag-national-bureau-of-economic-research","17":"tag-parliament-square","18":"tag-richard-baker","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-westminster"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115610377404846822","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}