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MPs criticise HMRC for ‘unambitious’ effort to recover £5.8BN in fraud

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By Alisha Houlihan for AMLi

The House of Commons public accounts committee have criticised HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) “unambitious” effort to recover an estimated £5.8BN (€6.9BN) improperly paid out to businesses through the pandemic support schemes, in a report published on Friday. 

The UK tax authority has been accused by Members of Parliament (MP), for not doing enough to recover billions of pounds lost through fraud in state-sponsored support packages and warned it risks being considered “soft on fraud”. 

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