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HMRC Annual Report and Accounts 21-22

Inquiry

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 Jim Harra and senior officials at HMRC on the issues identified by the NAO, as well as how HMRC is managing tax reliefs and revenue collection, especially after the UK’s tax debt levels doubled during the pandemic.

If you have evidence on these issues please submit it here by Friday 7 October 2022.

This inquiry is no longer accepting evidence

The deadline for submissions was Friday 7 October 2022.

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Thirty-Third Report - HMRC performance in 2021–22
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Correspondence from Jim Harra, Chief Executive and First Permanent Secretary, HM Revenue and Customs, re Public Accounts Committee Report: HMRC Performance 2021-22, Recommendation 5, dated 12 May 2023
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Correspondence from Jim Harra, Chief Executive and First Permanent Secretary, HMRC, re Public Accounts Committee Report: HMRC Performance 2021-22, Recommendation 5, dated 28 April 2023
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Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Thirty third report from Session 2022-23
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Correspondence from Jim Harra, Chief Executive and First Permanent Secretary, re Thirty-Seventh Report of Session 2021-22: HMRC Performance in 2020–21, dated 30 November 2022
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Correspondence from Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, HM Treasury, re following the Public Accounts Committee session on Thursday 20 October 2022, dated 4 November 2022
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Correspondence from Jim Harra, Chief Executive and First Permanent Secretary, re Public Accounts Committee: Thirty Seventh report of Session 2021-22 Recommendation 8, dated 29 July 2022
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20 October 2022
Inquiry HMRC Annual Report and Accounts 21-22
Witnesses HM Revenue and Customs, HM Revenue and Customs, HM Revenue and Customs, and HM Revenue and Customs
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The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) (ARA0002)
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