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HMRC's wealthy team has increased compliance yield by preventing non-compliance and targeting complex investigations.

Conclusion
The wealthy team has been generating more of its compliance yield from activities that promote compliance or prevent non-compliance, such as legislative changes, educating agents, and digital prompts within tax software, creating less need for HMRC to open a compliance investigation. HMRC said that by supporting more people to get their tax right first time it has been able to target its resources on more complex, higher-risk investigations that yield higher levels of compliance yield. It said average returns per case in the wealth team have increased from £34,000 to £94,000.34 The wealthy team has therefore managed to increase the yield from its compliance investigations despite conducting fewer of them.
Addressee Bodies
HM Treasury
Timeline
Recommendation age 0.9 yr
Report published 16 Jul 2025