HMRC is rewarding tax informants with £850,000 as a record number of fraud tip-offs was sent to the Labour Party government last year. HMRC was tipped off about 164,670 cases of alleged fraud last year, but total rewards given to snoops fell in the 2024/5 tax year.

The figures mark a 9% increase on the 2023/24 tax year when 151,763 reports were received. A combined total of £852,438 was given to informants whose tip-offs provided actionable intelligence on tax fraud, 13% less than was given by HMRC in the previous tax year (£978,256), according to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request by Price Bailey .

Andrew Park, tax investigations partner at Price Bailey, said “the current reward system lacks both scale and clarity” at a time when the taxman is increasingly depending on taxp

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