VAT: Maladministration
Commons · Question 78659 · Tabled 10 Oct 2025 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by James Wild
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the official statistics entitled 2025 HMRC statistics announcements, published on 8 October 2025, what assessment he has made of the reasons for HMRC’s error in recording VAT cash receipts outturn.
Answer
Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 20 Oct 2025
HMRC corrected the error in their VAT cash receipts which impacted provisional figures from April 2025 to August 2025. The impact of the correction was an upward revision of VAT cash receipts by £2.4 billion (approximately 3% of year-to-date VAT receipts)...