Public Accounts Committee

18 May 2026

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Public Accounts Committee Mon, 18 May 2026 House of Commons

00:05 - 01:42

Speaker 3

Of the public accounts committee. Apologies this afternoon from the chair, mister Jeffrey Clifton Brown. So I'm chairing this afternoon's session in instead of him. We're this afternoon about large business tax compliance. Large business account for tax collected totaling £337,000,000,000 by HMRC.

Given the scale of that, HMRC has a particular approach to large businesses called intensive cooperative compliance, for around 2,000 large businesses. What the National Audit Office found when they were examining this was there's a strong return, from HMRC in terms of collecting the tax, but it also identified certain important questions, about, how, HMRC determines risk, uses data, and resolves cases efficiently, and applies lessons more widely. They have a whole HMRC has a a wide range of powers, including special measures regime, but it hasn't used these powers on large businesses since it gained the powers in 2016. That's something in particular we want to explore in our session this afternoon. And also whether the approach taken with large businesses, which apparently seems to be successful, could be wider implementation, across, businesses as a whole.

So this afternoon, we've got our witnesses, from, HMRC. Perhaps, John Paul Marks as the permanent secretary and chief executive. You could begin by introducing yourself and your colleagues to the committee this afternoon.

01:42 - 01:51

Speaker 17

Miss chair, good afternoon to your committee. I'd be delighted. I'm John Plumartz. I'm the first permanent secretary chief executive of HMRC. Penny can introduce herself.

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