Tax and HMRC: this week in Parliament and GOV.UK

Week of Monday 26 October 2026 to Sunday 1 November 2026. Updated automatically every Monday from Policy Radar's archive of official sources; next update Monday 9 November 2026.

This week at a glance

Debates, statements and motions

• Delivery of Budget 2026 through property tax systems

  Early day motion · Thu 29 Oct · edm.parliament.uk

• Tax-Free Shopping: Economic Impact

  Debate · Mon 26 Oct · hansard.parliament.uk

Select committees

• Letter from the Minister for Pensions relating to Tax treatment of pension death benefits under the two-year rule, 28 October 2026

  Committee · Public Accounts Committee · Wed 28 Oct · committees.parliament.uk

• HMRC’s anti-fraud intervention on child benefit

  Committee evidence, 8 items · Public Accounts Committee · Mon 26 Oct · committees.parliament.uk

Written questions and answers

• Fuel Oil and Liquefied Petroleum Gas: VAT

  3 written questions and answers · Treasury · Tue 27 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

• Drugs: VAT

  2 written questions and answers · Department of Health and Social Care · Thu 29 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

• Council Tax: Surcharges

  2 written questions and answers · Treasury · Wed 28 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

• Business Rates: Tax Allowances

  2 written questions and answers · Treasury · Tue 27 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

• Further Education: VAT

  2 written questions and answers · Treasury · Tue 27 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

• Occupational Health: Tax Allowances

  Written answer · Treasury · Fri 30 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

• Visitor Levy: VAT

  Written answer · Treasury · Fri 30 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

• Fossil Fuels: Tax Allowances

  Written answer · Treasury · Fri 30 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

• Service Industries: VAT

  Written answer · Treasury · Fri 30 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

• Fossil Fuels: Subsidies and Tax Allowances

  Written answer · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero · Fri 30 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

• Tonnage Tax

  Written answer · Treasury · Fri 30 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

• Capital Gains Tax: Tax Rates and Bands

  Written answer · Treasury · Fri 30 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

And 47 more question topics this week. Policy Radar alerts you to all of them for your own keywords.

GOV.UK: consultations, news and publications

• Corporate Tax Simplification for Business Investment

  Consultation · HMT · Wed 28 Oct · gov.uk

• Modernising and standardising company tax returns

  Consultation outcome · HMRC · Wed 28 Oct · gov.uk

• Requiring payment of VAT and PAYE return liabilities by Direct Debit

  Consultation outcome · HMRC · Wed 28 Oct · gov.uk

• Plastic Packaging Tax - mechanically recycled plastic packaging

  Consultation outcome · HMRC · Wed 28 Oct · gov.uk

• Tackling lower value tax debts

  Consultation outcome · HMRC · Wed 28 Oct · gov.uk

• VAT treatment of land for social housing

  Consultation outcome · HMRC, HMT · Wed 28 Oct · gov.uk

• Timely Payments in income tax Self Assessment

  Consultation outcome · HMRC · Wed 28 Oct · gov.uk

• High Value Council Tax Surcharge

  Consultation outcome · MHCLG, HMT, HMRC · Wed 28 Oct · gov.uk

• Tax Treatment of Predevelopment costs

  Consultation outcome · HMT · Wed 28 Oct · gov.uk

• Prohibition of promotion of certain tax avoidance arrangements

  Publication · HMRC · Fri 30 Oct · gov.uk

• Refunds of UK VAT for non-UK businesses (VAT Notice 723A)

  Publication · HMRC · Fri 30 Oct · gov.uk

• HMRC Accounting Officer Assessments

  Publication · HMRC · Fri 30 Oct · gov.uk

And 99 more items this week. Policy Radar alerts you to all of them for your own keywords.

How this page is made

Every Monday we search the official items Policy Radar collected in the past week (Monday to Sunday) for these words in the title: tax, hmrc, vat, income tax, corporation tax, capital gains, making tax digital. Written questions on the same subject are grouped together, and amendments are grouped by bill. Matching on titles is quick but rough: some relevant items will be missing and a few may be off-topic. Each item links to the official page. For accountants, tax advisers and finance teams.