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1584815

registered interest
date	07/02/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidelines are followed by HMRC when making decisions on the allocation of discretionary financial awards.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Sarah Green
uin	141587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2023 answer text <p>The payment of rewards by HMRC is discretionary.</p><p> </p><p>The reward application must evidence the quality of the information provided, the extent and value to which the information contributed to HMRC assigned matters, and the result.</p><p> </p><p>Consideration must be given to any seizure details; revenue received/recovered; arrests; penalties; and the alleged value of a case being prosecuted by HMRC should be considered, where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>When processing a reward each case will be dealt with on its own merits.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/02/2023 12:18:49 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4918 label Biography information for Sarah Green

1584816

registered interest
date	07/02/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what was the total value of discretionary financial awards paid for by HMRC in each of the last six financial years.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Sarah Green
uin	141588
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2023 answer text <p>Rewards figures paid by HMRC are published in the annual reports and accounts on the gov.uk website:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmrcs-annual-report-and-accounts" target="_blank"><em>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmrcs-annual-report-and-accounts</em></a></p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/02/2023 12:17:44 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4918 label Biography information for Sarah Green

1504423

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has plans to (a) review inheritance policy and (b) increase the annual allowance for gifts.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	45818
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2022 answer text <p>As with all taxes, the Government keeps this under review.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 07/09/2022 12:52:49 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1471487

registered interest
date	17/06/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the approximate annual cost in the initial year of raising the personal tax allowance to £15,000 per annum.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	20341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2022 answer text <p>The impact to the Exchequer from changes to the Income Tax Personal Allowance may be approximated using the “Direct effects of illustrative tax changes” table, which is published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/direct-effects-of-illustrative-tax-changes.</p><p> </p><p>The table shows the cost of £100, 1 per cent, and 10 per cent increases. These figures can be used to estimate the approximate impact from increasing the Personal Allowance to £15,000.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 22/06/2022 12:24:02 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1458606

registered interest
date	19/04/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the report entitled The management of tax expenditures, published by the NAO on 14 February 2020, Session 2019-20, HC46, whether data on tax revenue lost through abuse and error for all tax expenditures is being gathered by HMRC and analysed to help prevent potential future abuses; and what steps he plans to take to ensure HMRC staff are fully trained on tackling those potential abuses and errors.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	155739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2022 answer text <p>HMRC has developed a detailed programme to understand the costs of tax reliefs and expenditures. They publish statistics on tax reliefs annually. HMRC have been developing the content of those statistics over the past 2 years, in line with Public Accounts Committee and National Audit Office recommendations. In the latest December 2021 publication, they published cost estimates for 220 out of 300 non-structural reliefs, up from 111 in Autumn 2019.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC estimates the tax gap, which is the difference between the amount of tax that should, in theory, be paid to HMRC, and what is actually paid. The UK tax gap is estimated to be 5.2 per cent of total theoretical tax liabilities (£34.8 billion) in the tax year 2019-20. Non-compliance with tax reliefs and expenditures contributes to the overall tax gap estimates. However, HMRC does not make a disaggregated estimate of the tax gap for tax reliefs and expenditures. HMRC’s tax gap estimates are official statistics produced in accordance with the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice for Statistics.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC undertakes a wide range of compliance activity to collect or protect revenue as part of the commitment to narrow the tax gap. This includes collaborative compliance activity across specialist teams trained in tackling avoidance, evasion, and criminal attack. They have developed a professionalism programme with focused training, leading to increased criminal and civil fraud investigations.</p><p>HMRC already has well established training schemes for its caseworkers, which include:</p><ul><li>The flagship Tax Specialist Programme, an intensive 3-year graduate-level programme equipping staff with the skills and knowledge needed for the most challenging compliance work.</li><li>An 18-month programme for all other caseworkers managing tax compliance, which incorporates foundation skills and dedicated training ‘routeways’ for different tax regimes, consolidated by specialist on-the-job training within compliance teams. HMRC has also recently established a dedicated Central Training Unit (CTU) to embed compliance professional standards consistently from Day 1 for new recruits; the CTU is currently training over 3,000 new recruits.</li><li>HMRC’s Fraud Investigation Service tackles the most serious fraud and organised criminal attacks against the Exchequer, using both criminal and civil investigations. Those officers who are authorised to undertake criminal investigations receive accredited training that reflects the standards expected within the Criminal Justice System.</li></ul> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 26/04/2022 15:33:07 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1331614

registered interest
date	09/06/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Allowances
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what potential tax incentives they have (1) discussed, and (2) implemented, in support of the news publishing industry.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2021 answer text <p>The Government recognises the important role that media organisations, including the news publishing industry, play at a national and local level. In order to support them, the Government extended the £1,500 business rates discount on local newspaper office space in England until 31 March 2025.</p><p> </p><p>On 1 May 2020, the Government extended the zero rate of VAT to e-publications to support literacy and reading and make it clear that e-books, e-newspapers, e-magazines and academic e-journals are entitled to the same VAT treatment as their physical counterparts. Originally due to be implemented in December 2020, the introduction of the zero rate was brought forward as a boost for readers and publishers during the coronavirus outbreak.</p><p> </p><p>The Government keeps all tax policy under review and regularly receives proposals for sector-specific tax reliefs.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 23/06/2021 11:54:21 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1302893

registered interest
date	16/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of non-structural tax reliefs in (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20; and if he will place a copy of those estimates in the Library.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	169951
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2021 answer text <p>Information on the costs of reliefs is available on GOV.UK: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/main-tax-expenditures-and-structural-reliefs" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/main-tax-expenditures-and-structural-reliefs</a>. These statistics, published annually by HMRC, contain estimates of the costs of non-structural tax reliefs. The estimates reflect the total amount by which users benefit from each relief and not the gain to the Exchequer should the relief be removed. Some reliefs are uncosted, usually due to data limitations.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 22/03/2021 11:25:24 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1239197

registered interest
date	30/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 29 September 2020 to Question 95206 on Tax allowances, how much additional funding will be allocated to HMRC for the monitoring and evaluation of tax reliefs.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	97697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/10/2020 answer text <p>The amount of additional funding allocated to HM Revenue &amp; Customs for the monitoring and evaluation of tax reliefs will be determined through the outcome of the funding settlement agreed between HM Treasury and HM Revenue &amp; Customs, as part of the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review 2020.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 05/10/2020 15:15:35 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1238294

registered interest
date	28/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many policy evaluations of non-structural tax reliefs have been undertaken by (a) HMRC and (b) his Department in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	96182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2020 answer text <p>HMRC carry out evaluations either internally or through external contracts to evaluate the effectiveness of reliefs. HMRC have published evaluations of 15 tax reliefs since 2015. The reliefs evaluated account for over £11 billion of the total cost of reliefs as estimated in 2018-19.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s response to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report “Management of tax reliefs” was published on 28 September. This outlines the approach and commitments the Government has made on the monitoring and evaluation of tax reliefs. This includes new commitments to define and publish criteria for determining which reliefs to evaluate, to put in place a more structured programme of internal evaluation, and to aim to publish more of this internal analysis.</p><p> </p><p>HMT and HMRC work in policy partnership to consider the effectiveness of policies as part of continuing policy maintenance and development, which forms the foundation of evidence-based advice to ministers. They do this as part of the fiscal event cycle, where tax policy changes are decided and put forward by ministers, voted on by Parliament, and legislated for through the Finance Bill.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 01/10/2020 14:34:47 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1237512

registered interest
date	24/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Allowances
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 review the (a) effectiveness, (b) equity and (c) value for money of non-structural tax reliefs.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	95206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2020 answer text <p>The Government’s response to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report “Management of tax reliefs” was published on 28 September. This outlines the approach and commitments the Government has made regarding the monitoring and evaluation of tax reliefs. The Government has said it will consider development of a methodology for assessing the value for money of tax reliefs. This work will support the Government’s ambition for a fair and sustainable tax system.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 29/09/2020 16:23:55 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden