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Business: Unpaid Taxes

Asked by Sir John HayesConservativeTreasuryTabled Answered 27 January 2026UIN 106467

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much is owed in uncollected taxes from businesses that liquidated when their owed taxes were attempted to be recovered in 2025.

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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