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Voluntary Organisations: Finance

Asked by Callum AndersonLabourTreasuryTabled Answered 12 June 2026UIN 8424

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the impact of grant-funded voluntary organisations on reducing unresolved tax disputes.

Answered by Dan Tomlinson

The VCS Grant Funding programme complements the Extra Support services HMRC provides and extends the Department’s reach. Grant Funding enables organisations to deliver trusted support to vulnerable and extra support customers with complex or unresolved tax issues. This helps those customers engage with HMRC and understand their obligations. The VCS support contributes to positive outcomes, building confidence, helping resolution and bringing tax affairs up to date. In 2025/26 the Scheme supported 43,000 individual customers.

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