VAT: Fraud

Summary

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of HMRC's (a) investigative powers and (b) human resources to investigate cases of organised criminals accessing VAT accounts using genuine customers' registration deta

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1. 18 March 2026

   Written question

   To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of HMRC's (a) investigative powers and (b) human resources to investigate cases of organised criminals accessing VAT accounts using genuine customers' registration deta

   Source: Commons

2. 26 March 2026

   Answer

   HMRC has active investigations into organised crime VAT fraud. However, live case information isn’t routinely published, and disclosing the number of ongoing investigations would risk alerting or enabling those seeking to exploit the tax system. Further t...

   Source: Written answer

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