PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Horizon IT System: Compensation (22 February 2023)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether compensation received by subpostmasters following the failure of the Post Office Horizon IT system will be treated as loss of earnings for tax purposes.

Asked by:
Jonathan Reynolds (Labour)

The Government is working with Post Office to ensure all victims of the Horizon IT scandal are returned to the financial position they should have been in had the wrongs not occurred.

Both Post Office and the Government want to see fair compensation for all victims and are looking at the tax issues raised so that if any unfairness is identified in individual cases, this can be addressed.

Answered by:
Kevin Hollinrake (Conservative)
14 March 2023