Official Statistics

2024 HMRC statistics announcements

Updated 5 November 2024

As part of the Code of Practice for Official Statistics, any changes to the HMRC annual scheduled updates will be stated and detailed on this page.

November

5 November 2024: Postponement of the Monthly property transactions completed in the UK with value of £40,000 or above publication

This is to announce the delay of the Monthly property transactions completed in the UK with value of £40,000 or above publication for December from our typical end-of-month publication schedule to 10 January 2025. This has been postponed slightly to allow adequate time for quality assurance, in-line with our usual process. If you have any further queries, please contact: stamptaxes.statistics@hmrc.gov.uk

4 November 2024: Corrections to the Annual Savings Statistics 2024

HMRC has identified and investigated an issue with the Lifetime ISA (LISA) subscription data submitted by a small number of providers. This issue impacts the current statistics on LISAs (amounts subscribed, number of accounts or average subscriptions) found in the 2024 Annual Savings Statistics. The other subscription statistics and the other tables of the Annual Savings Statistics are not affected.

An updated release of the 2024 Annual Savings Statistics will be published on 4 December 2024. This release will contain corrected statistics for Lifetime ISA subscriptions.

For any queries, please contact: personaltax.statistics@hmrc.gov.uk

October

23 October 2024: Annual Savings Statistics 2024

HMRC has identified an issue with the Lifetime ISA (LISA) subscription data submitted by a small number of providers. We are currently checking the data with these providers and we recommend that for now, users do not use the current statistics on LISAs (amounts subscribed, number of accounts or average subscriptions) found in the 2024 Annual Savings Statistics. The other subscription statistics and the other tables of the Annual Savings Statistics are not affected. Once we have a greater understanding of this issue, we will pre-announce the timeline for correcting the figures if needed.

For any queries, please contact: personaltax.statistics@hmrc.gov.uk

September

24 September 2024: Undisclosed foreign income in Self Assessment by UK residents, 2018 to 2019

This is to announce a release of ‘official statistics in development’ for undisclosed foreign income in Self Assessment by UK residents, 2018 to 2019. It will present analysis of tax non-compliance of UK resident individuals failing to disclose foreign income covered by Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) in 2018 to 2019. They are a subset of the existing ‘Measuring tax gaps’ annual official statistics. 

This publication was not released in ‘Measuring tax gaps 2024 edition’ in line with guidance for Civil Servants during an election period.  

This release will be published at 9.30am on 24 October 2024.  

If you have any further queries, please contact taxgap@hmrc.gov.uk.

3 September 2024: Postponement of the UK regional trade in goods statistics disaggregated by smaller geographical areas publication

Due to upcoming unscheduled corrections, HMRC will postpone the publication of “UK regional trade in goods statistics disaggregated by smaller geographical areas: 2023”. This release had originally been planned for publication in November 2024.

As per the announcement, the unscheduled corrections will be applied to the following Official Statistics:

• UK overseas trade in goods statistics: August 2024, which will be published on 11 October 2024

• UK regional trade in goods statistics, quarter 3, July to September 2024, which will be published on 11 December 2024

• UK regional trade in goods statistics disaggregated by smaller geographical areas: 2023, which is now scheduled to be published on 23 January 2025

If you have any queries, please contact: uktradeinfo@hmrc.gov.uk

August

29 August 2024: Scottish VAT Assignment 2022

Due to issues that have arisen during our quality assurance processes the above statistical publication will be delayed from its original 26 September 2024 release date. The new date will be announced at least 4 weeks in advance. If you have any further queries, please contact:  revenuemonitoring@hmrc.gov.uk

7 August 2024: Corrections to the Overseas Trade in Goods Statistics

HMRC has identified an error impacting Overseas Trade in Goods Statistics. This affects UK exports from January 2020 to October 2023, and UK imports from February 2020 to March 2023.

Due to incorrect reporting, certain export and import gas pipeline declarations were incorrectly published. The issue was found during regular quality assurance checks of trade data.

These corrections revise the monthly UK export trade figures upwards by between 0.0% and 0.2% for months in 2020, by between 0.0% and 1.9% for months in 2021, by between 0.7% and 4.6% for months in 2022, and by between 0.2% and 1.8% for months in 2023.

These corrections revise the monthly UK import trade figures upwards by less than 0.1% for months in 2020, by between 0.0% and 0.7% for months in 2021, and by less than 0.1% for months in 2022 and 2023.

These changes will be incorporated into the August 2024 statistics, released on Thursday 11 October 2024.

Revisions to other related statistics will be made in future releases retrospectively.

If you have any further queries, please contact: uktradeinfo@hmrc.gov.uk

May

24 May 2024: Summary of movements of goods into Northern Ireland from Great Britain 2023

On 25 June 2024, HMRC is releasing a statistical publication of the provisional management information collected for movements of goods into Northern Ireland from Great Britain.

This will present the number of declarations submitted in 2022 and 2023. The value of goods moved and the number of businesses associated with those declarations.

If you have any queries, please contact: uktradeinfo@hmrc.gov.uk

24 May 2024: Non-domiciled taxpayers in the UK

This publication will be rescheduled from the proposed release date of 4 July 2024 and will now be released on 9 July 2024. This is due to the 2024 General Election taking place on the planned publication date.

If you have any further queries, please contact: personaltax.statistics@hmrc.gov.uk

22 May 2024: Asymmetries in international trade in goods statistics: UK measured against trade partners 2020 to 2022

HMRC has identified errors in the HS2 chapter descriptions in the commentary of the release. These have been corrected. The methodology notes landing page published on 21 May 2024 has been amended. Previously, it stated that the methodology notes apply to publications from 2022 onwards, whereas in fact they apply from 2023 onwards.

If you have any further queries, please contact: uktradeinfo@hmrc.gov.uk

2 May 2024: Employee Share Schemes statistics

HMRC identified a data processing error affecting published statistics for Employee Share Schemes in tax year ending 2015 to tax year ending 2021.

Whilst we review the robustness of data for earlier years, we will be publishing statistics on the tax year ending 2022 only. The publication was delayed from the release date in June 2023 and will now be released on 30 May 2024.

If you have any further queries, please contact: personaltax.statistics@hmrc.gov.uk

March

14 March 2024: Child and Working Tax Credits error and fraud statistics

We are ceasing the Child and Working Tax Credits error and fraud statistics publication due to the underlying random enquiry programme stopping as tax credits will close in 2024 and the remaining population will move to Universal Credit. We have developed a new projection methodology for tax years 2022 to 2023, 2023 to 2024, and 2024 to 2025. The central estimate of tax credits error and fraud for these years will be published in HMRC’s Annual Report and Accounts.

We will be publishing the final estimate of error and fraud in tax year 2021 to 2022 on 11 April 2024.

HMRC identified a minor historical error in the statistics covering tax year 2020 to 2021 published on 23 June 2022 affecting the final central estimate (£ million) of tax credits error and fraud and number of awards in error and fraud, as a result of incorrect weighting. We will publish an amendment to the tax year 2020 to 2021 publication on 11 April 2024 alongside the final estimate for tax year 2021 to 2022.

More information on revisions to Official Statistics can be found in the HMRC policy on revisions to official statistics.

For any queries, please contact benefitsandcredits.analysis@hmrc.gov.uk

1 1 March 2024: Correction to business counts in the 2021 and 2022 Customs Importer and Exporter Population Publication

HMRC identified a minor error affecting the customs importer and exporter population data for the years 2021 and 2022.

HMRC will release the next publication on 10 April 2024. The publication will include unscheduled corrections to these periods. It will supersede the 2022 and 2021 publications.

If you have any further queries, please contact: uktradeinfo@hmrc.gov.uk

February

1 February 2024: UK trade in goods diversification 2018 to 2022

On 19 March 2024, HMRC is publishing a statistical publication analysing the counts of commodity codes across two different data sources: Overseas Trade in Goods Statistics (OTS) and Customs declaration data from 2018 to 2022.

This publication complements other releases from ONS and HMRC. It provides further insights to the trade data collection changes within the OTS pre and post EU Exit.

The analysis looks at how changes in different data collection methods affect the count of commodity codes at 8-digit level, within the published trade data from 2018 to 2022.

If you have any queries, please contact: uktradeinfo@hmrc.gov.uk

January

29 January 2024: Asymmetry analysis for trade in goods statistics between the UK and the USA, 2017 to 2022

On 1 March 2024, HMRC is publishing a statistical publication looking at differences in how the UK and the USA record and report goods traded between them, from 2017 to 2022.

HMRC and the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) worked with the United States Census Bureau (Census) to conduct this asymmetry analysis.

This report uses data obtained from the United Nations International Trade Statistics Database. The asymmetries analysis focuses on the total trade in goods and the trade in vehicles, which is within Chapter 87 of the Harmonised System (HS) for classifying goods.

If you have any queries, please contact: uktradeinfo@hmrc.gov.uk

29 January 2024: HMRC tax receipts and National Insurance contributions for the UK

HMRC have identified a potential concern with 2022 to 2023 and 2023 to 2024 receipts data affecting Pay As You Earn (PAYE). We are investigating further and expect this may require revisions to affected receipts in our publication on 21 February 2024. This is in line with our published revisions policy of releasing revised statistics if additional information becomes available.

If you have any queries relating to this publication, please email crosscuttingstatistics@hmrc.gov.uk.