Over the last five years, HMRC has paid out nearly £2m to informants who reported incidents of tax-dodging to the tax authority
A freedom of information (FOI) request has revealed that since 2016, HMRC has paid out £1,925,660 to informants and in the last year alone has paid a total of £400,000 for the tip-offs.
HMRC’s fraud hotline, which enables people to report suspected tax abuse, has so far received more than 120,000 reports of alleged tax wrongdoing in the last year.