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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Richard Partington Senior economics correspondent

Wealthy Britons avoiding more tax than previously thought, spending watchdog says

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The super-rich experienced a fall of 75% in the number of penalties being issued to them in the year to March 2024. Photograph: Mike Kemp/In Pictures/Getty

Wealthy individuals in Britain could be avoiding more tax than had been thought, the government’s spending watchdog has said, after a dramatic fall in the number of penalties being issued to the super-rich.

In a report urging ministers to redouble their efforts to secure more of the money owed by wealthy people to the exchequer, the National Audit Office (NAO) said billions of pounds was going unpaid each year.

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