2026 HMRC statistics announcements
Updated 5 March 2026
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January
19 January 2026: Postponement of the 2024 Local sites publication
Following the announcement on 13 November 2025 about corrections to the UK overseas trade in goods statistics (OTS), the following announcement relates to a downstream product of the OTS.
The 2024 Local sites publication due to be published in March 2026 will be delayed. It is now expected to be published by Summer 2026. The new release date will be announced at least 4 weeks before publication.
If you have any queries relating to this publication, please email uktradeinfo@hmrc.gov.uk
19 January 2026: Direct effects of illustrative tax changes
In November, the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) conducted a compliance review of our Direct effects of illustrative tax changes publication. The OSR found that the statistics were presented clearly and factually, but made four recommendations to improve transparency regarding costing methodologies and user engagement. As a result, we will be delaying this iteration of the publication until summer 2026 to allow time to implement these recommendations.
If you have any queries relating to this publication, please email mailbox.kaibudgetcoordination@hmrc.gov.uk
March
04 March 2026: Statistics about Personal Incomes
HMRC had originally planned to publish the Statistics about Personal Incomes release in February/March 2026, but this has now been postponed to Wednesday 22 April 2026. This slight postponement allows sufficient time for quality assurance, in-line with our usual process, to remediate an exceptional issue identified by those checks. If you have any queries relating to this publication, please email spi.enquiries@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk
09 March 2026: Annual Stamp Tax Statistics
HMRC has identified an error in our Annual Stamp Tax Statistics Publication and has published a correction. These corrections affect the columns “Proportion of HRAD transactions also paying NRSDLT” in Table 6b and “Proportion of NRSDLT transactions also paying HRAD” in Table 6c. The proportions have increased for all price bands, with the headline changes being an increase of 2 percentage points (from 3% to 5%) in Table 6b and an increase of 20 percentage points (from 33% to 53%) in Table 6c.
This issue does not affect HMRC’s Annual Report and Accounts, nor any interactions with taxpayers. This announcement is in line with our published revisions policy.
If you have any queries relating to this publication, please email stamptaxes.statistics@hmrc.gov.uk.