Question follow-through · 41682
Tax Evasion: Businesses
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to (a) reduce the levels of tax evasion by of cash-only high street businesses and (b) support small businesses to adopt card payment systems.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 26 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 31 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 31 Mar 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to (a) reduce the levels of tax evasion by of cash-only high street businesses and (b) support small businesses to adopt card payment systems.
31 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Mar 2025
Answer published
HMRC is committed to ensuring the tax system operates fairly and efficiently, creating a level playing field for compliant businesses. Most businesses pay what they owe, but a minority fail to register or only declare a portion of their earnings for tax. ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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