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1718446

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to improve the (a) efficiency of and (b) resources available to HMRC's tax recovery strategy.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	26586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>HMRC’s approach to debt is to strike a balance between doing everything it can to collect the debt in a timely manner and taking more robust action where taxpayers do not engage or refuse to pay. More information can be found in HMRC’s published tax debt strategy on GOV.UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 20/05/2024 15:40:07 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1716965

registered interest
date	09/05/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to simplify the tax system.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	25476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2024 answer text <p>The Chancellor has been clear that tax simplification is a key priority. He has set a clear mandate for officials in HMT and HMRC to focus on simplification during tax policy making and implementation.</p><p> </p><p>Recent fiscal events have included several simplification measures. At Autumn Statement 2023 the government abolished the obligation to pay class 2 self-employed national insurance contributions, simplified the capital allowances system for large businesses by making full expensing permanent, and made it easier for self-employed to use a simplified method for calculating small business profits known as the cash basis.</p><p> </p><p>The Government announced additional simplifications in a Written Statement on 16<sup>th</sup> January.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 16/05/2024 12:44:56 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1695487

registered interest
date	12/03/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation
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 potential impact of changes to personal tax thresholds on incentives to work.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	18244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2024 answer text <p>The Office for Budget Responsibility provide the official government forecasts. Their estimate of the impact of personal tax policies on work incentives can be found in Box 3.2 of their Economic and Fiscal Outlook – March 2024.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 18243 question first answered 20/03/2024 16:36:20 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1692064

registered interest
date	27/02/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2024 to Question 14168 on Taxation, if he will produce a table for the (a) 2021-22 and (b) 2022-23 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	15969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2024 answer text <p>HMRC’s Personal Income Statistics by tax year now contain a constituency-level breakdown of taxpayer numbers for the tax year 2021 to 2022. This is the latest outturn data available and can be found below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65de1b17cf7eb10015f58036/Table_3.15_2122.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65de1b17cf7eb10015f58036/Table_3.15_2122.ods</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 01/03/2024 09:22:59 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1689242

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	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 estimate of the number and proportion of higher rate taxpayers by parliamentary constituency in the last financial year.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	14168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>HMRC’s Personal Income Statistics by tax year contain a constituency-level breakdown of taxpayer numbers for the tax year 2020 to 2021. This is the latest outturn data available and can be found in Table 3.15 below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6402022ad3bf7f25f5948f90/Table_3.15_2021.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6402022ad3bf7f25f5948f90/Table_3.15_2021.ods</a></p><p> </p><p>The parliamentary constituency breakdowns published in these statistics are consistent with those used at elections since 2010 and do not contain the new boundaries that will be in place at the next election.</p><p> </p><p>Further breakdowns of this information are not routinely published.</p><p> </p><p>For projection years, HM Revenue and Customs does not publish this information at constituency level.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 26/02/2024 16:18:31 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1684991

registered interest
date	24/01/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the feasibility of cutting taxes in the upcoming budget, further to the report, Public sector finances, UK: December 2023, published by the Office for National Statistics on 23 January, and having regard to the overall stability of the economy.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL1902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to sustainable public finances and has taken responsible decisions to keep debt falling and borrowing at a sustainable level.</p>Autumn Statement 2023 confirmed that inflation has been halved and underlying debt is forecast to fall. The Chancellor is now delivering on his commitment to cut taxes – making full expensing permanent so businesses can invest for less. In addition, the Chancellor’s reforms to NICs will cut taxes for 29 million working people. These reforms will grow the economy, and make the tax system simpler for businesses and individuals.<p> </p>The Chancellor announced in December that he has commissioned the Office for Budget Responsibility to prepare an updated economic and fiscal forecast to be presented to Parliament alongside his Spring Budget on 6 March 2024.<p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 01/02/2024 16:04:34 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1665380

registered interest
date	17/10/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government plans to vote in support of initiating multilateral negotiations on a framework convention on tax at the UN General Assembly in November 2023.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Dame Margaret Hodge
uin	202863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government believes international cooperation is important in tackling global tax challenges, and actively engages with the OECD’s and UN’s work on tax policy.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring internationalensuring international tax rules and standards are effective as well as inclusive. To this end, the Government has supported consensus-based reform of the international tax rules through the OECD, including through the G20/OECD Inclusive Framework (with over 130 members) and the Global Forum (with over 160 members), in which non-OECD members participate on an equal footing. This reflects the strong expertise that sits within the OECD and the steps taken in recent years to become ever more inclusive of the needs of developing countries.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 202864 202865 question first answered 25/10/2023 07:40:16 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

1665381

registered interest
date	17/10/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government supports the creation of a tax framework at the (a) UN and (b) OECD level.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Dame Margaret Hodge
uin	202864
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government believes international cooperation is important in tackling global tax challenges, and actively engages with the OECD’s and UN’s work on tax policy.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring internationalensuring international tax rules and standards are effective as well as inclusive. To this end, the Government has supported consensus-based reform of the international tax rules through the OECD, including through the G20/OECD Inclusive Framework (with over 130 members) and the Global Forum (with over 160 members), in which non-OECD members participate on an equal footing. This reflects the strong expertise that sits within the OECD and the steps taken in recent years to become ever more inclusive of the needs of developing countries.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 202863 202865 question first answered 25/10/2023 07:40:16 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

1665382

registered interest
date	17/10/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 61 of the report of the United Nations Secretary-General on Promotion of inclusive and effective international tax cooperation at the United Nations, published on 8 August 2023, whether the Government has made an assessment of the compatibility of the options in the table with UK tax policy.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Dame Margaret Hodge
uin	202865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government believes international cooperation is important in tackling global tax challenges, and actively engages with the OECD’s and UN’s work on tax policy.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring internationalensuring international tax rules and standards are effective as well as inclusive. To this end, the Government has supported consensus-based reform of the international tax rules through the OECD, including through the G20/OECD Inclusive Framework (with over 130 members) and the Global Forum (with over 160 members), in which non-OECD members participate on an equal footing. This reflects the strong expertise that sits within the OECD and the steps taken in recent years to become ever more inclusive of the needs of developing countries.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 202863 202864 question first answered 25/10/2023 07:40:16 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

1661021

registered interest
date	15/09/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 6 September 2023 to Question 196959 on High Income Child Benefit Tax Charge, if he will list all tax charges that his Department has reviewed since January 2013.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	199756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2023 answer text <p>The Government keeps all taxes under review unless otherwise stated.</p><p> </p><p>Since 9 December 2010, HMRC have published Tax Information and Impact Notes (TIINs) alongside tax legislation. A full list of TIINs can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tax-information-and-impact-notes-tiins" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tax-information-and-impact-notes-tiins</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Government also publishes a list of open and closed tax consultations since 2020. This list can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tax-policy-consultations#closed-consultations-" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tax-policy-consultations#closed-consultations-</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Finally, a list of completed and ongoing HMRC research can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?parent=hm-revenue-customs&amp;content_store_document_type=research&amp;organisations%5B%5D=hm-revenue-customs&amp;order=updated-newest" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?parent=hm-revenue-customs&amp;content_store_document_type=research&amp;organisations%5B%5D=hm-revenue-customs&amp;order=updated-newest</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 22/09/2023 08:02:17 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day