Migrants: Taxation

(asked on 23rd March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department took to establish mechanisms to receive tax return data of Highly Skilled Tier 1 (General) Migrants from HMRC for indefinite leave to remain decisions.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 13th April 2021

The Home Office and HMRC have an agreed sharing protocol.

Section 40 of the UK Borders Act 2007 provides a statutory gateway to allow HMRC to share data with the Home Office for immigration and nationality functions as set out in the legislation.

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