PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Taxation (24 January 2023)

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what data his Department holds on (a) estimated PAYE and National Insurance contributions tax receipts, (b) estimated receipt of incomes taxes other than PAYE, (c) estimated compliance yield generated from HMRC activities, (d) estimated spend on compliance activities and (e) estimated tax gap in respect of wealthy individuals in each tax year since 2010-11.

Asked by:
James Murray (Labour)

The estimated PAYE and National Insurance contributions tax receipts, estimated receipts from other taxes, estimated compliance yield generated from HMRC activities and estimated spend on compliance activities from 2019-20 to 2021-22 can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmrcs-annual-report-and-accounts. This information was compiled from Annual reports and accounts published by HMRC.

Table 1.4 of Measuring tax gaps 2022 edition: tax gap estimates for 2020 to 2021’ provides a time series for the estimated tax gap for wealthy individuals and is available on GOV.UK at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/measuring-tax-gaps-tables.

Answered by:
Victoria Atkins (Conservative)
30 January 2023