Foreign Entertainers

HC Deb 20 May 1993 vol 225 cc283-4W

Mr. Beith

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much tax has been yielded in each separate tax year under the foreign entertainers legislation in the Finance Act 1986; how much of this revenue is due to tax liabilities in each year; and how much of this revenue is due to tax liabilities from past years and interest charged upon such liabilities.

Mr. Dorrell

The following is the information:

	Yield (£) relating to:
	Actual year	Previous year	Total
11987–88	6,921,507	3,178,043	10,099,550
1988–89	12,436,964	3,707,230	16,144,194
1989–90	13,259,785	4,403,960	17,663,745
1990–91	18,003,805	2,033,597	20,037,397
1991–92	16,146,336	1,410,536	17,556,872
1992–93	19,953,506	508,569	20,462,075
1 From 1 May 1987.

The above amounts of tax and interest (which take repayments into account) were obtained from foreign entertainers and sportsmen by the Inland Revenue foreign entertainers unit.