Question follow-through · 1113

Unpaid Taxes

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people have been allowed to pay taxes late without penalty in each of the last five years.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
14 May 2026
Target answer date
21 May 2026
Answer
21 May 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 14 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people have been allowed to pay taxes late without penalty in each of the last five years.

  2. 21 May 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 21 May 2026

    Answer published

    HM Revenue and Customs does not hold centrally a dataset that identifies how many individuals have been allowed to pay taxes late without incurring a penalty in each of the last five years.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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