Question follow-through · 68020
Taxation: Repayments
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to ensure that HMRC processes tax refunds within a (a) reasonable and (b) transparent timeframe.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 15 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 21 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to ensure that HMRC processes tax refunds within a (a) reasonable and (b) transparent timeframe.
21 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jul 2025
Answer published
HMRC recognises that tax refunds are important for customers, and aims to process repayments as a priority. HMRC’s correspondence service standard is to respond to 80% of priority post within 15 working days. Monthly performance against this standard is p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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