Tax Fraud

HC Deb 21 January 1994 vol 235 cc843-4W

Mrs. Beckett

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many investigations were carried out for tax fraud in each year since 1978–79; and what was the success rate of those investigations.

Mr. Dorrell

Inland Revenue investigations into possible or actual tax fraud, and the percentage of those investigations which resulted in monetary settlements or recoveries of tax, are shown in the table.

Year	Number of investigations	Percentage success rate
1985–86	70,446	92.0
1986–87	67,798	92.0
1987–88	67,752	92.0
1988–89	71,085	91.0
1989–90	76,738	92.0
1990–91	81,277	92.0
1991–92	81,333	91.0
1992–93	75,649	91.0

Comparable figures for earlier years are not available.