2025 HMRC statistics announcements
Updated 21 March 2025
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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.
March
21 March 2025: HMRC tax receipts and National Insurance contributions for the UK
On 21 February 2025, we announced that VAT receipts for 2022 to 2023, 2023 to 2024 and 2024 to 2025 would be revised. This revision has now been made.
This has resulted in a downwards revision of £1.7 billion to VAT receipts reported for 2022 to 2023, £0.5 billion for 2023 to 2024 and £0.7 billion for 2024 to 2025 to date. This revision is less than 1% of total VAT receipts across this period.
The announcement on 21 February 2025, including the planned timeline for revisions in associated publications, can be found below.
If you have any queries relating to this publication, please email revenuemonitoring@hmrc.gov.uk
14 March 2025: correction to Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings Statistics
HMRC has identified an error in the Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings (ATED) statistics Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings (ATED) Statistics - GOV.UK publication impacting financial year 2021 to 2022 and 2022 to 2023.
This resulted in our statistics not including some paper returns for these years. This error was discovered during detailed analysis of publication data. Figures for the number of ATED liable properties and relief returns were underreported by around 4% per year. This error did not impact tax liabilities or payments received by HMRC.
An updated release of the ATED statistics will be published on 28 March 2025. This release will contain corrected statistics for financial year 2021 to 2022 and 2022 to 2023.
For any queries, please contact stamptaxes.statistics@hmrc.gov.uk
February
28 February 2025: correction to Tobacco Bulletin
HMRC has identified two statistical data processing errors impacting the Tobacco Bulletin. These errors impact the tobacco receipts by type of tobacco product and has resulted in the under-reporting of total tobacco clearances. Total tobacco receipts figures are not impacted. Corrections have been made from January 2020 onwards.
An updated release of the Tobacco Bulletin was published today on 28 February 2025 and includes corrected statistics on the first error identified for tobacco receipts by type of tobacco product. As total receipts are not impacted, the direction of this correction varies by type of tobacco product each month. The largest correction is £25 million. As the receipts figures are used in the estimation of non-cigarette clearances, it has also resulted in revisions to clearance figures within this release.
The next release of the Tobacco Bulletin will be published on 30 May 2025. This release is expected to contain the corrected statistics for second error identified solely impacting tobacco clearances. The expected direction of this correction is an increase in clearances, primarily affecting cigarette clearances in the two most recent financial years.
If you have any queries relating to this publication, please email revenuemonitoring@hmrc.gov.uk
21 February 2025: HMRC tax receipts and National Insurance contributions for the UK
In August 2024 we advised that annual VAT receipts for 2022 to 2023 and 2023 to 2024 had not been aligned to HMRC’s cash-based Trust Statement while ongoing assurance is performed. Our expectation is that we will now align these years with HMRC’s accounts, and this will result in a downward reduction to total VAT receipts reported over this period.
HMRC are also implementing a change to methodology to more closely align in-year reporting to end of year accounting processes and provide a more accurate in-year view. These changes are expected to reduce annual receipts by less than 1% over 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25.
We are planning on publishing these revisions on 21 March 2025. The revisions will have impacts on associated publications. Details of these publications and planned timeline for revision is:
- HMRC tax receipts and National Insurance contributions for the UK – for 2022 to 2023 and 2023 to 2024 and 2024 to 2025 – on 21 March 2025
- VAT gap estimates for 2023 to 2024 – on 26 March 2025
- VAT annual statistics for 2022 to 2023 and 2023 to 2024 – on 23 April 2025
- Measuring Tax Gaps 2025 for 2022 to 2023 – in June 2025 – date to be confirmed on the usual HMRC and GOV.UK release calendar at least a month ahead.
If you have any queries relating to this publication, please email revenuemonitoring@hmrc.gov.uk
January
15 January: correction to Property Rental Income Statistics 2024
HMRC has identified a data processing error impacting the Property Rental Income Statistics published on 30 August 2024. The issue was found during detailed analysis the publication data.
This error resulted in an undercount of partnerships returns which has resulted in an under representation of this sub-population. The error also affects reported expenses of landlords and any statistics featuring landlord population totals.
An updated release of the 2024 Property Rental Income Statistics will be published on 12 February 2025. This release will contain corrected statistics for partnerships.
For any queries, please contact: propertyrentalstatistics@hmrc.gov.uk