Question follow-through · 24388

Tax Avoidance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people HMRC has identified as being liable for the Loan Charge who have not yet (a) paid and (b) settled to avoid it (i) in total and (ii) by Parliamentary constituency.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
15 Jan 2025
Target answer date
17 Jan 2025
Answer
22 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people HMRC has identified as being liable for the Loan Charge who have not yet (a) paid and (b) settled to avoid it (i) in total and (ii) by Parliamentary constituency.

  2. 17 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 22 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    HMRC has previously estimated that around 40,000 individuals and 5,000 employers were liable to the Loan Charge and were yet to settle with HMRC, including those who had settled some but not all of their liabilities. This information is not available at p...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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