Revenue and Customs

(asked on 20th December 2016) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) budget and (b) planned workforce is of HM Revenue and Customs' employment status and intermediaries team.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 9th January 2017

Responsibility for enforcing employment categorisation is shared across a number of teams within HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). The Employment Status and Intermediaries Team handles most of the cases. The budget for the Employment Status and Intermediaries team in 2016-17 is £10.637m, this covers the pay bill and travel & subsistence costs. Other costs are allocated centrally by HMRC and are not split to team level. There is currently the equivalent of 253 full time employees in the team.

Some cases are also handled by HMRC’s Fraud Investigation Service (FIS), Large Business and National Minimum Wage teams. In these teams it is not possible to isolate either the resource or budget allocated to enforcing employment categorisation as the resource is allocated according to the risk presented in the case. Multi-skilled teams working across all areas of the tax system tackle the largest and most serious cases with appropriate resource depending on the range of risks presented of which employment categorisation may be one.

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