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  • Research exploring the impact of the COVID pandemic on businesses and aiming to understand the effectiveness of a model created to target communications and ensure fair debt collection.

  • Research to gain insight into customers’ and tax agents’ knowledge and perceptions of specific areas of the statutory review process, to inform future improvements.

  • Research exploring the ongoing customer impact of record-keeping behaviour change in response to Making Tax Digital for VAT in the second year of mandation.

  • A technical note from HMRC setting out what the tax gap and compliance yield are and how they are related.

  • Research to explore the characteristics of unaffiliated tax agents (those agents who are not members of a professional body).

  • This report describes the main findings from HMRC's annual stakeholder research.

  • This report describes the main findings from the department's 2020 customer survey.

  • Qualitative research exploring the motivations and experiences of customers using High Volume Agents to claim tax rebates

  • Research to better understand Self Assessment customers dealing with financial difficulties.

  • Research to explore the assumptions, knowledge and behaviours that influence reporting changes to a child’s FTNAE status to HMRC, to improve communications.

  • Research to understand the support needs and experiences of customers who use these organisations for support with their tax affairs.

  • Research to explore how Self Assessment customers perceived their initial correspondence from HMRC after it had begun a compliance check.

  • Research to understand the knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of Chinese online sellers in relation to their customs and tax obligations when selling goods to the UK.

  • This report looks at the extent to which Making Tax Digital for VAT is achieving its objectives including reducing scope for error and making it easier to get tax right.

  • Research to understand customers' perceptions of the Upfront Honesty Declaration and its impact on their experience of completing their VAT return.

  • This research explored HMRC's relationships with the wealthy and their agents with the aim of fostering greater trust and transparency.

  • This research explored small and mid-size businesses’ behaviour around payment transactions, including barriers to adopting digital payments.

  • HMRC carried out 2 surveys to learn how COVID-19 affected demand for Tax-Free Childcare in late 2020 and in 2021.

  • This research explored how Making Tax Digital for VAT has affected mandated businesses in terms of costs and benefits, both financial and non-financial.

  • Research to explore why businesses below the VAT threshold signed up to Making Tax Digital voluntarily.