Improving the data HMRC collects from its customers
Detail of outcome
The government is publishing its response to the consultation, ‘Improving the data HMRC collects from its customers’. This explored how HMRC can ensure that the data it holds gives an accurate and up to date picture of citizens and businesses to help build a trusted, modern tax administration system and improve government policy making.
The government will focus on options where data is already held by customers and will legislate to require employers, company Directors and the self-employed to provide data to HMRC to enable better outcomes for citizens and businesses.
Feedback received
Detail of feedback received
The government is publishing its response to the consultation, ‘Improving the data HMRC collects from its customers’. This explored how HMRC can ensure that the data it holds gives an accurate and up to date picture of citizens and businesses to help build a trusted, modern tax administration system and improve government policy making.
The government will focus on options where data is already held by customers and will legislate to require employers, company Directors and the self-employed to provide data to HMRC to enable better outcomes for citizens and businesses.
Original consultation
Consultation description
The focus of the consultation is on data collected directly from taxpayers but in parallel HMRC continue to look critically at the data we already collect, and could potentially collect in the future, from third parties to support our objectives and improve customers’ experience.
We have selected several areas where we think that collecting additional data could bring significant benefits to customers and taxpayers. Some options target specific customer groups, such as the self-employed, while others look to collect a particular piece of information across different customer groups.
Documents
Last updated 27 April 2023 + show all updates
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Published summary of responses.
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First published.