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Research: Tax Allowances

Commons · Question 41175 · Tabled 25 Mar 2025 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 2 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Nick Timothy

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of processing R&D tax relief (a) applications, (b) rejections and (c) appeals in each year since 2015.

Answer

Answered by James Murray, 2 Apr 2025

In October 2024, HMRC released operational data in the Approach to Research & Development Tax Reliefs 2023-2024 publication. This includes data from 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 on the number of R&D enquiries, the proportion of claims requiring adjustm...