Question follow-through · 67995
Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans her Department has to review tax reliefs and their effectiveness.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 15 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans her Department has to review tax reliefs and their effectiveness.
17 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jul 2025
Answer published
Tax reliefs are an important feature of the UK tax system. Many tax reliefs help to define the scope of the tax and make sure that the tax system operates fairly while simplifying and reducing administrative burdens for businesses and individuals (structu...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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