Tax Allowances

(asked on 13th October 2026) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the operating and monitoring cost of each tax relief with an annual Exchequer impact exceeding £1 billion.


Answered by
James Murray Portrait
James Murray
Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General
This question was answered on 21st October 2026

HMRC estimated the overall cost of collection as 0.51 pence for every pound generated in tax revenue in 2025/26.

Estimates of the cost of operating and monitoring individual reliefs are not available.

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