Business: Taxation

(asked on 4th June 2021) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide information on the (a) number and (b) volume of enquiries undertaken by HMRC’s Large Business Directorate in respect of businesses of which the registered location of the parent group is in the (a) UK Crown dependencies and (b) British overseas territories, broken down by territory and dependency in each year between 2014-15 to 2019-20.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 11th June 2021

Information has been provided in the table below:

Risks Closed
During each Year Ended 31 March

2014/15

Crown Dependencies

24

British Overseas Territories

54

2015/16

Crown Dependencies

25

British Overseas Territories

50

2016/17

Crown Dependencies

33

British Overseas Territories

30

2017/18

Crown Dependencies

16

British Overseas Territories

43

2018/19

Crown Dependencies

28

British Overseas Territories

31

2019/20

Crown Dependencies

25

British Overseas Territories

31

Data in respect of individual dependencies and territories has not been provided, in order to protect taxpayer confidentiality.

Any information that could identify individual taxpayers, including aggregate information concerning a small number of taxpayers, is exempt under Section 18 Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005.

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