Written question asked by Lord Taylor of Goss Moor (Liberal Democrat) on Monday, 30 April 2001, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 11 May 2001. It was answered by Baroness Primarolo (Labour) on Friday, 11 May 2001 on behalf of the Treasury.

Treasury

Question: To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many individual taxpayers who file self-assessment tax returns and have registered for the Inland Revenue service for filing tax returns on the Internet have submitted their tax returns using the Internet-based service in each month since the service became available; and if he will make a statement. - (Holding answer 3 May 2001).

Answer: Mr. Matthew Taylor: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many individual taxpayers who file self- assessment tax returns and have registered for the Inland Revenue service for filing tax returns on the internet have submitted their tax returns using the internet-based service in each month since the service became available; and if he will make a statement. [160117] Dawn Primarolo: [holding answer 3 May 2001]: Since the facility to submit tax returns over the internet became available on 3 July 2000, 40,299 tax returns have been received over the internet from individual taxpayers who file self assessment tax returns. The number of submissions in each month were as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Month Returns submitted Cumulative total 2000 July 7,321 7,321 August 6,630 13,951 September 9,419 23,370 October 2,544 25,914 November 1,165 27,079 December 1,412 28,491 2001 January 9,694 38,185 February 973 39,158 March 122 39,280 April 1,019 40,299 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

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