Question follow-through · 104479
Horizon IT System: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, which Horizon Shortfall Scheme payments are 1) exempt from tax and 2) subject to tax, and whether these taxation rules apply to all historical payments already paid out.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 9 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 15 Jan 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, which Horizon Shortfall Scheme payments are 1) exempt from tax and 2) subject to tax, and whether these taxation rules apply to all historical payments already paid out.
13 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Horizon Shortfall Scheme (HSS) is designed to put postmasters back into the position they would have been in ‘but for’ Horizon, and no one will pay more tax than at the time of the shortfalls. All fully assessed HSS awards are paid gross and taxable i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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McDonalds Restaurants
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