Tax Allowances

(asked on 11th September 2026) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Tax Reliefs are in force.


Answered by
James Murray Portrait
James Murray
Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General
This question was answered on 12th October 2026

HMRC recognises around 1,200 tax reliefs. Of these, 340 are non-structural and the remaining are structural.

The most recent HMRC statistical publication covering costings and usage of structural and non-structural reliefs, where available, is the annual Tax Relief Statistics publication. The latest publication was released on 22 January 2026, and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tax-reliefs

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