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Revenue and Customs: Correspondence

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking with HMRC to help ensure taxpayers receive prompt responses to queries.

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Answering body: Treasury
Tabled: 4 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 6 Nov 2024
Answer: 12 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking with HMRC to help ensure taxpayers receive prompt responses to queries.
6 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Nov 2024
Answer published
HMRC recognise that their service levels have been below published standards, and they are committed to improving customer service performance.To improve their services and meet published standards, HMRC are deploying additional customer service advisers ...

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