Tax Returns

HC Deb 12 May 1989 vol 152 cc554-5W

Mr. Nicholas Brown

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the numbers of Inland Revenue tax returns issued and received in each year from 1979 to the latest year available.

Mr. Norman Lamont

[holding answer 8 May 1989]: The approximate numbers of personal tax returns issued at the start of every tax year from 1979–80 onwards are as follows:

	(millions)
1979–80	9.79
1980–81	9.11
1981–82	8.35
1982–83	7.88
1983–84	8.00
1984–85	7.92
1985–86	7.64
1986–87	7.35
1987–88	7.30
1988–89	7.31
1989–90	7.97

No central record is available of the number of returns received.