Increase In Tax Investigations
HMRC appears to be focussing more efforts on tax complaince, which is resulting in more tax enquiries and an increase in tax recovered as a result.
Tax enquiries in 2024 collected £45 billion in tax, which is £10 billion in excess of what was collected in 2023.
The increase in tax revenue is before the impact of the additional 5,000 compliance officers who are being recruited. The additional employees are forecast to collect an additional £2.7 billion per year. There are currently 26,000 compliance officers at HMRC.