§ Mr. Marksasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many firms have been closed down in the last 12 months at the instigation of the Inland Revenue because of arrears of payment of taxes.
§ Mr. RidleyIn the year to March 1982, 230 companies were wound up and 966 individual taxpayers were the subject of receiving orders as a result of petitions presented84W by the Board of Inland Revenue for tax arrears. In a small number of these cases the taxpayer may not have been carrying on a business.