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Unpaid Taxes

Asked by James McMurdockIndependentTreasuryTabled Answered 12 January 2026UIN 102474

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much uncollected tax has been written off as unrecoverable by HMRC in each year since 2020.

Answered by Dan Tomlinson

HMRC publishes the amount of tax written off each year in its Annual Report and Accounts. This information is available on GOV.UK. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmrcs-annual-report-and-accounts

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