Business: Unpaid Taxes
The question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what data her Department has regarding the amount of unpaid taxes by businesses that is awaiting recovery.
Answered by Dan Tomlinson
HMRC publishes quarterly updates that report on the total debt balance at the end of each quarter. The most recent update was published on 8 January 2026 and can be found at www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmrc-quarterly-performance-updates.
HMRC publishes data on individual tax heads but does not publish an aggregated dataset on business taxes.
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