Treasury written question – answered at on 11 January 2012.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer
(1) what estimate HM Revenue and Customs has made of the amount of underpaid tax in the years up to financial year 2007-08;
(2) what his estimate is of the amount which will be repaid to people who were over-taxed in the tax years up to 2007-08.
holding answer
Most people within PAYE pay the right amount of tax during the year, but some customers pay either too much or too little.
HMRC set up the Open Case Programme to tackle the cases relating to 2007-08 and earlier years which were still to be cleared when their new computer system came in. The Programme is on track to complete this work by the end of 2012.
HMRC estimates that when the Programme is complete repayments worth around £2.8 billion for 2003-04 through to 2007-08 will have been issued and a further £236 million will have been collected.
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