Revenue and Customs: Staff

(asked on 11th July 2019) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax experts HMRC's Tax Capacity Building Unit and Tax Expert Unit has trained since 2017.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 16th July 2019

The Capacity Building Unit, which subsumed the Tax Expert Unit on 1 April 2017, does not maintain records of the number of people trained in Low and Middle Income Countries. This is principally because:

  • HMRC’s Capacity Building Unit delivers technical assistance through a broad range of methods beyond the delivery of training, including through sharing of advice and experience, workshops and mentoring.
  • HMRC often train other trainers, in order to spread awareness of best practice most efficiently. As a result the effect of HMRC training goes well beyond the number of people specifically involved.
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