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.

answeredTreasury

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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

  1. 15 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans her Department has to review tax reliefs and their effectiveness.

  2. 17 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 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...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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