Report Feb. 26 2025
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: fraud, theft and false accounting, later overturned by the court (compensation for Overturned Convictions
Jul. 24 2024
Source Page: BBC Television Licence Fee Trust statement for the year ending 31 March 2024Found: Evasion Rate The BBC’s evasion model estimates the level of evasion from the number of licences in
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what was the value of civil penalties (a) imposed and (b) collected as a result of HMRC's criminal investigations into tax avoidance and evasion in each financial year between 2010-11 and 2023-24; and what was the value of civil penalties (a) imposed and (b) collected for the avoidance and evasion of (i) income tax, (ii) national insurance contributions, (iii) VAT, (iv) excise duties and (v) corporation tax in each of those years.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston
Where data is already available via GOV.UK, HMRC have provided links below.
HMRC do not routinely issue civil penalties as a direct result of criminal investigations, so do not hold the requested data.
Prosecutions, convictions and acquittals:
2019-2020
2020-21 and 2021-22
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/630f50178fa8f54491def8ce/HMRC_quarterly_performance_data_table_Q4_2021_to_2022.xlsx
2022-23
Total number of individuals charged:
2020/21 and 2021/22:
2022/23:
There has been one Deferred Prosecution Agreement:
https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/first-ever-cps-deferred-prosecution-agreement-ps615-million
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Table 2 of the Answer of 13 April 2021 to Question 174107 on Tax Evasion: Prosecutions, if he will publish the (a) number of individuals charged and (b) number of individuals charged with tax evasion by HMRC for the financial years (i) 2021-22, (ii) 2022-23 and (iii) 2023-24.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston
Where data is already available via GOV.UK, HMRC have provided links below.
HMRC do not routinely issue civil penalties as a direct result of criminal investigations, so do not hold the requested data.
Prosecutions, convictions and acquittals:
2019-2020
2020-21 and 2021-22
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/630f50178fa8f54491def8ce/HMRC_quarterly_performance_data_table_Q4_2021_to_2022.xlsx
2022-23
Total number of individuals charged:
2020/21 and 2021/22:
2022/23:
There has been one Deferred Prosecution Agreement:
https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/first-ever-cps-deferred-prosecution-agreement-ps615-million
May. 21 2024
Source Page: Post-legislative scrutiny of the Criminal Finances Act 2017: Memorandum to the Home Affairs CommitteeFound: Part three creates two new corporate offences of failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion.
Correspondence Nov. 12 2024
Committee: Home Affairs Committee (Department: Home Office)Found: the JMLIT (including Public Private Threat Groups on Terrorism Financing, Fraud, Illicit Finance and Tax
Found: Our 2024 report on tackling tax evasion in high street and online retail found that while these reforms
Nov. 27 2008
Source Page: Criminal statistics: England and Wales 2007: statistics bulletin, November 2008. 210 p.Found: Evasion of liability by deception (except railway frauds). (TEW) 25.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 6 September 2017 to Question 6732 on Taxation: Prosecutions, how many prosecutions resulted from HMRC's criminal investigations into tax avoidance and evasion in the financial year (a) 2017-18, (b) 2018-19, (c) 2019-20, (d) 2020-21, (e) 2021-22, (f) 2022-23 and (g) 2023-24; and how many of those prosecutions resulted in (i) convictions and (ii) acquittals in each year.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston
Where data is already available via GOV.UK, HMRC have provided links below.
HMRC do not routinely issue civil penalties as a direct result of criminal investigations, so do not hold the requested data.
Prosecutions, convictions and acquittals:
2019-2020
2020-21 and 2021-22
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/630f50178fa8f54491def8ce/HMRC_quarterly_performance_data_table_Q4_2021_to_2022.xlsx
2022-23
Total number of individuals charged:
2020/21 and 2021/22:
2022/23:
There has been one Deferred Prosecution Agreement:
https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/first-ever-cps-deferred-prosecution-agreement-ps615-million
Feb. 04 2009
Source Page: Table showing imprisonable offences and the related legislation for each year from 1997 to 2007, broken down by offence, Act, and custodial or non-custodial punishment. 46 p.Found: Handbook 2008-09 > Finance Act 2003[OTH]xx95 Offence of fraudulent evasion of taxOrange Tax Handbook