*Update: HMRC has announced that it is planning to make some changes to the suite of HMRC official statistics publications, partly in response to the Office for Statistics Regulation’s report on the quality of HMRC official statistics and partly due to increasing demands for new statistics, for example on coronavirus support schemes. 

It has set out its plans in this consultation. It contains proposals to either discontinue, reduce frequency or content or consolidate a variety of publications. This now includes a proposal to streamline charity tax statistics by removing references to reliefs that are no longer active

Charity tax relief statistics

 We propose to reduce the time series covered in the Charity tax relief statistics publication. This will mean no longer republishing information each year on reliefs which are no longer available. As a result, the time series will begin from the tax year ending 2013. This will enable us to simplify the tables, making them easier to understand and interpret.

Specific details will be included in the next release of the publication expected in February 2021 covering the tax year ending 2020. These changes will be implemented in the June 2021 release covering the tax year ending 2021. Previous editions of the publication with the full time series will remain on GOV.UK.

CTG previously provided a short response to HMRC’s consultation on the programme for reducing published Official Statistics.

Programme for reducing published Official Statistics content – CTG response 19 November 2020