Recommendation 9

With the resources it was given in the 2021 Spending Review, HMRC’s aim is to maintain the tax gap and prevent it from growing. For every £1 that it spends on compliance activity, it said it recovers £18 in additional tax revenues. HMRC sometimes gets additional resources from HM Treasury for particular purposes in return for additional tax revenues. HMRC said that typically this investment recovers between £10 and £20 in tax revenue for every £1 it spends.13 Fraud and error in the COVID-19 support schemes