Fiona Mactaggart – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Fiona Mactaggart on 2014-07-15.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what average length of time was taken to provide individual taxpayers with refunds of overpaid tax in (a) the most recent year for which figures are available and (b) the preceding four years.

Mr David Gauke

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) refunds tax to individual customers for different types of taxes throughout the year. HMRC endeavours to refund tax as soon as practicable after they identify tax is to be refunded.