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<p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have brought together their High Net Worth Unit and
Affluent teams to form a single Wealthy team. This organisational change will ensure
that HMRC deploy their specialist, highly skilled resource on those wealthy individuals
that present the highest compliance risk.</p><p> </p><p>As at 31 March 2017, the team
had approximately 1040 full time equivalent staff engaged in customer compliance activity.
Their roles focus on promoting tax compliance and tackling non-compliance amongst
the wealthy population, including, where evidence is found, investigating potential
tax evasion. The team works closely with Counter Avoidance and Fraud Investigation
Service to ensure HMRC effectively tackle avoidance and evasion within this customer
segment. Customer compliance activity as a whole forms is the largest part of HMRC
by staff numbers.</p>
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