HMRC has allocated over £1.5bn for 2024-25 to support staff in combating compliance

HMRC has allocated over £1.5bn for 2024-25 to support staff in compliance, preventing and detecting fraud cases and collecting taxes, representing a 23 per cent increase on its 2021-22 staff bill.

According to a freedom of information (FOI) shared with City AM by think tank Parliament Street, over the past fiscal year as part of its efforts to ensure compliance and fraud prevention, HMRC has ramped up hiring in its Customer Compliance Group (CCG) as the wages bill tops £1.5bn.

The CCG department has 28,074 staff employed, an increase from the 27,374 it had in 2023-24; however, the FOI shows that the numbers are down from the 28,699 it had in 2021-22.

Despite the staff numbers being down from the 2021-

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