Question follow-through · 100626
Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion: Digital Technology
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential for AI and digital technology to reduce a) tax evasion and b) tax avoidance.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 23 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential for AI and digital technology to reduce a) tax evasion and b) tax avoidance.
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Dec 2025
Answer published
HMRC is expanding its use of AI to help tackle the tax gap and The Hon gentleman’s Telford constituency is an important hub for HMRC’s digital and AI work. HMRC’s expansion includes how they focus their compliance work through new risk-targeting capabilit...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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