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HMRC Annual Report and Accounts 21-22

Status: Closed Opened: 26 Jul 2022 Closed: 13 Apr 2023 9 recommendations 14 conclusions 1 report

Gareth Davies, the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) of the National Audit Office, has ‘qualified’ his audit opinion on HMRC’s 2020-21 Annual Resource Accounts because of “material levels of error and fraud in the COVID-19 support schemes, Personal Tax Credits expenditure and Corporation Tax research and development reliefs” . The Committee will question Permanent Secretary …

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Reports

1 report
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Thirty-Third Report - HMRC performance in 2021–22 HC 686 11 Jan 2023 23 Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

6 items
7 Recommendation Thirty-Third Report - HMRC performance … Not Addressed

Research and development tax reliefs are costly, prone to abuse and provide questionable benefit to...

Research and development tax reliefs are costly, prone to abuse and provide questionable benefit to the UK economy. The government has a target of 2.4% of GDP to be invested in research and development. In 2021–22, HMRC spent £9.5 billion on research and development reliefs, with expenditure having continued to …

Government response. The response addresses different recommendations (1 and 2 related to the UK Infrastructure Bank) and not the recommendation related to research and development tax reliefs.
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1 Conclusion Thirty-Third Report - HMRC performance …

On the basis of a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, we took evidence...

On the basis of a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, we took evidence from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) on its performance in 2021–22.1 HMRC published its annual report and accounts for 2021–22 on 18 July 2022, shortly before Parliament’s summer recess. It had published its annual report …

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11 Conclusion Thirty-Third Report - HMRC performance …

HMRC has been given £100 million to fund a temporary taskforce to investigate fraud and...

HMRC has been given £100 million to fund a temporary taskforce to investigate fraud and error on the schemes and has opened about 40,000 investigations so far. HMRC forecasts that by the time the taskforce winds down, it will have recovered around £1.1 billion, around a quarter of the fraud …

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16 Conclusion Thirty-Third Report - HMRC performance …

HMRC said that it limits the number of callers that can join the call queue,...

HMRC said that it limits the number of callers that can join the call queue, which can have an impact on its call waiting time measure. Anyone not able to join the call queue is played a “busy message” and is forced to end the call. HMRC told us that …

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18 Conclusion Thirty-Third Report - HMRC performance …

The total tax debt owed to HMRC in August 2022 was £46 billion.

The total tax debt owed to HMRC in August 2022 was £46 billion. This is less than at the height of the pandemic in March 2021 but significantly higher than before the pandemic. HMRC told us that while the size of the debt fluctuates throughout the year, the trend continues …

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Oral evidence sessions

1 session
Date Witnesses
20 Oct 2022 Angela MacDonald · HMRC, Jane Whittaker · HM Revenue and Customs, Jim Harra · HMRC, Justin Holliday · HMRC View ↗

Correspondence

3 letters
DateDirectionTitle
6 Dec 2022 — Correspondence from Jim Harra, Chief Executive and First Permanent Secretary, r…
15 Nov 2022 — Correspondence from Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, HM Trea…
8 Sep 2022 — Correspondence from Jim Harra, Chief Executive and First Permanent Secretary, r…