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1486574

registered interest
date	05/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Evasion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps HMRC has taken to use Common Reporting Standard data to assess the extent of offshore tax evasion by UK residents.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Dame Margaret Hodge
uin	30972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2022 answer text <p>The Common Reporting Standard (CRS) provides HMRC with critical information, which is playing a major role in tackling offshore tax non-compliance, including evasion.</p><p>When CRS data is received, HMRC systematically compare it to customer information and tax records, to establish whether UK taxpayers have properly reported their overseas income and determine the appropriate response.</p><p>HMRC plans to calculate and publish a new stand-alone offshore tax gap, which estimates the amount of offshore tax not being correctly reported by UK taxpayers next year, for the ‘Measuring tax gaps 2023 edition’.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 13/07/2022 10:58:55 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

1486575

registered interest
date	05/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HMRC made Common Reporting Standard data available to analysts within HMRC’s Knowledge Analysis and Intelligence division.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Dame Margaret Hodge
uin	30973
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2022 answer text Common Reporting Standard data has been made available to analysts in Knowledge Analysis and Intelligence. answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 13/07/2022 11:07:14 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

1486576

registered interest
date	05/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will require HMRC to make Common Reporting Standard data available to independent academic researchers in a suitably anonymised format.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Dame Margaret Hodge
uin	30974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2022 answer text <p>Common Reporting Standard data is available to HMRC in an aggregated, anonymised format. However, there is a limit to what can be shared beyond HMRC as the data is provided by other countries under international legal agreements which contain strict rules about onward disclosure of information and must be respected.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 13/07/2022 11:08:50 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

1486652

registered interest
date	05/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Wealth: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a one-off wealth tax on individual wealth above £10 million.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	31171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to a fair tax system where those with the most contribute the most. This is why the Government has taken steps to ensure the wealthy pay their fair share by reforming the taxation of dividends, pensions, and business disposals to make the tax system fairer and more sustainable.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also ensured the wealthy pay the tax that is owed. In 2019-20, HMRC secured £2.2 billion in tax from the wealthiest individuals that would have otherwise gone unpaid.</p><p> </p><p>The UK does not have a single wealth tax, but it does have several taxes on assets and wealth. The UK taxes assets and wealth across many different economic activities, including the acquisition, holding, transfer and disposal of assets, and income derived from assets.</p><p> </p><p>Notably, the Wealth Tax Commission, which has no connection or link to the Government, found in 2020 that if considering Inheritance Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Stamp Duty, and Stamp Duty Land Tax, the UK is among the top of the G7 countries for wealth taxes as a percentage of total wealth.</p><p> </p><p>It is also clear that the Wealth Tax Commission’s suggestion of a potential one-off wealth tax in the UK would be a complex undertaking, and the amount of revenue raised would be highly dependent on the final design of the tax.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/07/2022 07:13:14 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1486653

registered interest
date	05/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Wealth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the number of people with wealth over £10 million in each of the past 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	31172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>The tax information HMRC holds does not include comprehensive data on the wealth of taxpayers.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for National Statistics undertakes a Wealth and Assets survey biennially, which can be found here: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/incomeandwealth/datasets/totalwealthwealthingreatbritain" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/incomeandwealth/datasets/totalwealthwealthingreatbritain</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Table 2.5 provides a percentage of households estimated to have wealth of over £1 million. The most recent estimate was 17 per cent of households.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 14/07/2022 13:33:52 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1485959

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	NHS: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that additional tax payments as a result of pension growth are not disproportionately impacting NHS staff.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North East
tabling member printed	Fabian Hamilton
uin	29898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that hard-working NHS staff do not find themselves reducing their work commitments due to the interaction between their pay, their pension, and the relevant tax regime.</p><p> </p><p>99 per cent of pension savers make annual contributions below £40,000, the level of standard annual allowance which has applied from 2014-15. To ensure that defined benefit scheme members are not unduly affected by the annual allowance (for example if their pension rights increase after a promotion), the Government allows up to three years of unused annual allowance to be carried forward. The Government also increased the two thresholds above which the tapered annual allowance applies were each raised by £90,000 in April 2020.</p><p> </p><p>Individuals who breach the annual allowance on tax-relieved pension savings can also use an option called ‘scheme pays’, under which they can require their pension scheme to pay their annual allowance tax charge now (in return for an actuarially fair reduction in their pension), provided that the annual allowance charge is at least £2,000 and they have exceeded the annual allowance of £40,000. In England and Wales, the NHS Pension Scheme goes further, allowing scheme pays to be used on any annual allowance charges relating to accrual in that scheme.</p><p> </p><p>The reforms to the annual allowance and lifetime allowance made since 2010 are expected to save £6 billion per year, and allow pension savers to build significant retirement savings tax free, while also ensuring that the highest earning pension savers do not receive a disproportionate benefit from pensions tax relief.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 07/07/2022 10:40:00 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	415 label Biography information for Fabian Hamilton

1486072

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the speech by the Brexit Opportunities Minister to the Policy That Works Conference on 1 March 2022, if he will publish examples of late payment letters issued by HM Revenue and Customs where Romanised words were replaced with Anglo-Saxon words to improve comprehension by taxpayers.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	29974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2022 answer text <p>HMRC is doing a great deal of work to make letters easier for customers to read and understand. This is part of the commitment in the HMRC Charter to make its services accessible, easy, and quick to use.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has produced guidelines for its staff for writing to customers. The guidelines focus on avoiding unnecessarily formal or complex language. This includes using shorter, simpler Anglo-Saxon words rather than their more formal Romanised equivalents. For example, ‘need’, rather than ‘require’; ‘give’ rather than ‘provide’; and ‘help’ rather than ‘assist’.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC is also investing in writing skills training for staff to continue to improve the quality of customer letters across the department.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has no plans to publish its standard letters as there are several thousands of them, the majority of which are tailored to specific circumstances.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 12/07/2022 14:44:43 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1486273

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish a constituency-level breakdown of HMRC’s Income Tax liabilities statistics: tax year 2019 to 2020 to tax year 2022 to 2023, containing the number of taxpayers in each income tax bracket since 2019.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
tabling member printed	Christine Jardine
uin	30118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2022 answer text <p>HMRC’s Personal income by tax year statistics contains constituency-level breakdown of taxpayer numbers for 2019-20, the latest available outturn can be found in Table 3.15 here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1066946%2FTable_3.15_1920.ods&amp;data=05%7C01%7CBethany.Douce%40hmtreasury.gov.uk%7C3273a9449194478b561208da5ff4bafd%7Ced1644c505e049e6bc39fcf7ac51c18c%7C0%7C0%7C637927801948013554%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ByCW3dDiy%2BUdON5PHdehoB92RTV84RahV0HdMHKKQ5A%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1066946/Table_3.15_1920.ods</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Further breakdowns of this information are not readily available and cannot be provided within the time available.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s Income Tax liabilities statistics publish a high-level regional breakdown containing the number of taxpayers in each Income Tax bracket and numbers over 65, these can be found here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1086257%2FTable_2.2.ods&amp;data=05%7C01%7CBethany.Douce%40hmtreasury.gov.uk%7C3273a9449194478b561208da5ff4bafd%7Ced1644c505e049e6bc39fcf7ac51c18c%7C0%7C0%7C637927801948013554%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=a9A8wF%2B16g2S9Kp7ke8sFS7XeBasa5TvDo0Ki1I87m8%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1086257/Table_2.2.ods</a>.</p><p> </p><p>For projection years, HM Treasury does not publish this information at constituency level.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 30119 question first answered 07/07/2022 10:00:58 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4634 label Biography information for Christine Jardine

1486274

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Older People: Income Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish a constituency-level breakdown of HMRC’s Income Tax liabilities statistics: tax year 2019 to 2020 to tax year 2022 to 2023, containing the number of taxpayers aged 65 and over since 2019.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
tabling member printed	Christine Jardine
uin	30119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2022 answer text <p>HMRC’s Personal income by tax year statistics contains constituency-level breakdown of taxpayer numbers for 2019-20, the latest available outturn can be found in Table 3.15 here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1066946%2FTable_3.15_1920.ods&amp;data=05%7C01%7CBethany.Douce%40hmtreasury.gov.uk%7C3273a9449194478b561208da5ff4bafd%7Ced1644c505e049e6bc39fcf7ac51c18c%7C0%7C0%7C637927801948013554%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ByCW3dDiy%2BUdON5PHdehoB92RTV84RahV0HdMHKKQ5A%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1066946/Table_3.15_1920.ods</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Further breakdowns of this information are not readily available and cannot be provided within the time available.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s Income Tax liabilities statistics publish a high-level regional breakdown containing the number of taxpayers in each Income Tax bracket and numbers over 65, these can be found here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1086257%2FTable_2.2.ods&amp;data=05%7C01%7CBethany.Douce%40hmtreasury.gov.uk%7C3273a9449194478b561208da5ff4bafd%7Ced1644c505e049e6bc39fcf7ac51c18c%7C0%7C0%7C637927801948013554%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=a9A8wF%2B16g2S9Kp7ke8sFS7XeBasa5TvDo0Ki1I87m8%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1086257/Table_2.2.ods</a>.</p><p> </p><p>For projection years, HM Treasury does not publish this information at constituency level.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 30118 question first answered 07/07/2022 10:00:58 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4634 label Biography information for Christine Jardine

1485319

registered interest
date	01/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 13 June 2022 to Question 14571 on Tax Avoidance, what proportion of the individuals who have enquiries open have received correspondence from HMRC in the last 12 months, either to open the enquiry or to update them on their position.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	28898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2022 answer text <p>I refer my hon. Friend to the answer that was given on 13 June 2022 to UIN 14571. All taxpayers with open enquiries should have received correspondence from HMRC in the last 12 months, either to open the enquiry or to update them on their position.</p><p>HMRC wants to help taxpayers get out of tax avoidance schemes as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 06/07/2022 16:27:59 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts