questionText: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the answer of 29 April 2026 to question 129483, what (a) the declared trade value of goods imported under BIRDs declarations across all procedure codes and both CDS and CHIEF, (b) HMRC's estimate of the VAT that should have been collected on those sales and (c) the VAT remitted to HMRC by sellers and online marketplaces for those imports was in each year between 2022 and 2025.
answerText: (a) The trade value and number of declarations from the Bulk Import Reduced Data Set (BIRDS) under the Customs Declaration Service and Low-Value Bulking of Imports (LVBI) under the legacy CHIEF system are in the following table:YearLVBI Trade value (£bn)L...
heading: Customs: Digital Technology