PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Revenue and Customs: Trials (1 September 2023)

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, What estimate his Department has made of the average cost to businesses of successfully defending a court case brought by HMRC in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Esther McVey (Conservative)

HMRC does not estimate or collect customer data on the costs incurred by businesses who seek to contest an assessment through the courts.

More detail of the department’s litigation strategy can be found on GOV.UK at www.gov.uk/government/publications/litigation-and-settlement-strategy-lss

Answered by:
Victoria Atkins (Conservative)
11 September 2023