Written Question·Treasury·UIN 81541

Migrant Workers: Income Tax and National Insurance Contributions

Tabled: 13 October 2025
Answered: 21 October 2025

Question

Blake Stephenson

ConservativeMid Bedfordshire

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department undertakes checks on whether holders of work visas are paying (a) Income Tax and (b) National Insurance.

Answer

Dan Tomlinson
HMRC have interpreted ‘checks’ in this instance as ‘compliance checks’ on taxpayers with tax and National Insurance owed in the UK. HMRC takes a risk-based approach to compliance and focuses its resources where tax is most at risk of not being paid. This ...

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