Written Question·Treasury·UIN 102717

Unpaid Taxes

Tabled: 5 January 2026
Answered: 13 January 2026

Question

Sir John Hayes

ConservativeSouth Holland and The Deepings

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is the total cost to the public purse of money owed to HMRC in the form of unpaid (a) VAT and (b) corporation tax accrued since July 2024.

Answer

Dan Tomlinson
Our debt management workforce is deployed flexibly across all taxes to ensure efficient collection of debts owed and are not allocated to specific taxes. It is therefore not possible to provide a separate figure for staff working solely on VAT or corporat...

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