PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Unpaid Taxes (6 March 2023)

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February to Question 135480 on Taxation: Fines, how many penalties issued by HM Revenue and Customs which are recorded on the National Penalty Processing System for unpaid tax amounted to £10,000 to £99,999 in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
James Murray (Labour)

Further to the answers provided to Question 135480 and 139294, the National Penalty Processing System (NPPS) is only used to record certain types of penalty data, such as penalties for inaccuracies in returns and documents; or failure to notify on time.

NPPS does not specifically hold data relating to ‘fines for unpaid tax’.

Answered by:
Victoria Atkins (Conservative)
9 March 2023