Corporate Tax Evasion

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 24 October 2017.

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Photo of Mel Stride Mel Stride Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General 12:00, 24 October 2017

Since 2010, HMRC has secured more than £53 billion from big businesses alone in additional tax revenue from tackling tax evasion, avoidance and non-compliance, and we have made it an offence for a corporate to fail to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion by its employees. Corporation tax revenues were £55.3 billion in 2016-17, their highest level on record.