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HMRC publish constituency-level statistics on the number of taxpaying estates and their corresponding tax liabilities as part of their Inheritance Tax National Statistics series online: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/inheritance-tax-statistics<\/a>.<\/p> <\/p> HMRC suppress data which could result in individual taxpayers being identified. For this reason, all fields for this constituency have been suppressed in each of the last three years.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to support people who have been unable to access the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme as a result of incorrectly completed tax returns.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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