A report from the National Audit Office (NAO) on managing tax debt through the pandemic has shown there is still £42 billion of tax debt owed to HMRC as of 30 September 2021.
There are also now more than two million taxpayers in debt as at 30 September 2021 compared with 31 January 2020. While debt collection was paused during the height of the pandemic, the NAO pointed to a lack of HMRC resources as a continuing issue, with a 300 per...