by Claire Aston | Oct 25, 2023
Our new report “State of Tax Administration 2023” looks at data from HMRC’s Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, along with Freedom of Information requests and other publicly available data to get a feel for the current state of administration of the UK tax...
by Claire Aston | Jul 20, 2023
£1.13bn – revised estimate of error and fraud in 2020-21 (previously £338m) 24.4% – revised rate of error and fraud in SME scheme (previously 5.5%) £1.05bn – estimated error and fraud in 2022-23 HMRC have finally published initial data from their random enquiry...
by TaxWatch | Jun 21, 2023
Latest HMRC estimate of non-compliance unchanged from previous year, at 4.8% of all tax owed Absolute Tax Gap figure is £35.8bn – up from £30.8bn the previous year Changes to small business corporation tax methodology reveal a significant increase in this tax...
by Alex Dunnagan | May 2, 2023
HMRC must do more to deter and punish tax cheats following disruption to its compliance programme caused by the pandemic, according to a new report by the Public Accounts Committee. It shows HMRC opened 32% fewer cases in 2020-21 than the previous year, after 4,000...
