Tax Evasion
(asked on 20th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many referrals of (1) individuals, and (2) businesses, for suspected tax offences HMRC has received from local authorities in each year since 1997 up to the last year for which figures are available.
This question was answered on 4th December 2017
The table below shows referrals of (1) individuals, and (2) businesses, for suspected tax offences HMRC has received from local authorities, in each year since 2016 up to the last year for which figures are available. Prior to 2016, HMRC did not record data in a way that captured the originator of referrals.
| 2016 | 2017* | TOTAL |
INDIVIDUALS | 57 | 10 | 67 |
BUSINESSES | 48 | 13 | 61 |
*As of 22 November.