Consultation outcome

Summary of changes to HMRC statistics publications

Updated 30 March 2023

1. Summary of changes

The following table summarises plans for all the publications for which changes were proposed in HMRC’s consultation.

Publication	Changes to be made
Income Tax, National Insurance contributions, tax credits and Child Benefit statistics for non-UK nationals	We will discontinue this publication.
Insurance Premium Tax	We will reduce the publication frequency to annual by ceasing the winter publication.
Monthly property transactions	We will move the monthly publication releases to the end of the month.
Government revenue from UK oil and gas production	We will move the publication release from July to September.
Income Tax liabilities statistics	We will cease production of table 2.7 but keep the legacy data available on the publication page.
Private pension statistics	We will cease publication of table 1 and reduce the scope of tables 2.1 and 2.2. We will continue to improve the methodology, presentation and explanation of the statistics.
Annual savings statistics	We will cease production of the geographic breakdowns of the number of Help to Save accounts opened.
Creative industries statistics	We will no longer publish tables 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1 and the remaining tables will be published on an accruals basis only.
Research and Development Tax Credits	We will cease the April publication of supplementary tables but will include important supplementary tables from this publication within the September publication.
Child and Working Tax Credits error and fraud statistics	We will reduce the coverage within this publication.
Overseas trade in goods statistics release	We will reduce the commentary for the publication but provide separate links to the methodological notes on the releases’ landing page.
Corporation Tax receipts, liabilities and Bank Levy	We will explore using Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes for sectoral breakdowns of Corporation Tax receipts.
Payrolled employments in the UK by region, industry and nationality	We will explore expanding our coverage for this publication. We will explore changing it to a six-monthly publication.
Child Benefit Statistics	We will combine the Annual Child Benefit Statistics and Child Benefit Small Area Data publications into one publication and expand the coverage.
Child and Working Tax Credits statistics	We will consolidate the small area statistics and the finalised awards into one publication. We will change the format of tables within the provisional and finalised awards publications.
Inheritance Tax statistics	We will cease production of tables 12.1, 12.10b, and 12.11. We will retain table 12.7 and expand tables 12.3 and 12.7 and 12.8. We will re-order the table numbers and re-name the publication.
Statistics on non-domiciled taxpayers in the UK	We will reduce the time series for all the publication’s figures and charts, except for figure 1. We will discontinue table 12, combine tables 13 and 14 and simplify the commentary around the remittance basis charge.
Statistics on trusts	We will combine the number and income tables for discretionary trusts and for interest in possession trusts. We will ensure the time series for the publication include at least 11 years and shorten the longer tables in the commentary. We will explore the future usage of data from the Trust Registration Service.
Charity Tax Relief statistics	We will continue to publish tables 5, 6b and 6f. We will discontinue tables 3 and 6a and discontinue the means and medians in tables 5 to 7. We will re-number the tables.