HMRC Competition to Tackle Deliberate Evasion and Help Close the Tax Gap

HMRC Competition to Tackle Deliberate Evasion and Help Close the Tax Gap

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Closing the tax gap is a key strategic priority for HMRC. In the 2023 to 2024 tax year, the tax gap is estimated to be 5.3% of total theoretical tax liabilities, or £46.8 billion in absolute terms. This is driven by a range of customer behaviours from simple error to deliberate evasion. Identifying deliberate evasion is inherently difficult across a very large population of customers. By its nature the intent of deliberate evasion is to hide and deceive. This can lead to sub-optimal targeting of investigations by HMRC which impacts HMRC’s ability to close the tax gap and increases the burden on compliant customers. Being able to identify deliberate evasion accurately at population level will improve HMRC’s approach to managing the tax gap and reduce the impact on compliant customers.

This competitive procurement will invite novel and innovative solutions to closing the tax gap within a customer group on the theme of tackling evasion behaviour. The competition is open to all registered businesses.

Potential solutions may include (but are not limited to) analytical techniques and data that can help identify indicators of potential evasion in HMRC’s risking processes. However, this is an open competition, and HMRC would like to explore a range of innovative solutions that can contribute to the primary objective of closing the tax gap.

A multi-stage competitive flexible procedure will be used with features designed to support innovation, encourage participation especially from Small and Medium sized Enterprises, and to enable HMRC to implement a solution to the problem statement.

The first round submission will comprise of a short proposal and mandatory exclusion criteria. Bidders selected to proceed to further rounds will receive funding to support them through the rounds of the competition. There will be a funded pilot phase as part of the competition. Bidders are encouraged to join the launch event on the 21st July to learn about the stages of the competition. A full detailed description will be included in the tender documentation and further funding updates will be added to this page once available.

A launch event introducing the problem statement and the detail of the competitive flexible procedure will be held virtually, via Microsoft Teams, on Monday 21st July 2025 at 11am to 12:30pm. Bidders must register for HMRC’s SAP Ariba eSourcing portal (see below for details) and complete the registration form to register for the launch event by 3pm on Friday 18th July.

Late requests to join the event may be considered up to 10am on Monday 21st July.

The launch event will be recorded and the recording will be available to all bidders who enter the competition on SAP Ariba.

For queries about this competition, contact innovationaiteam@hmrc.gov.uk.

• This competition will be conducted by way of an eSourcing event using HMRC’s SAP Ariba eSourcing Portal. Please ensure you are registered with the eSourcing Portal to gain access to the competition documentation when it is released which will contain the problem statement and information on the process.

If you are not already registered, the registration link is:

http://hmrc.sourcing-eu.ariba.com/ad/selfRegistration

As part of the registration process you will receive a system generated email asking you to activate your SAP Ariba supplier account by verifying your email address. Once you have completed the activation process you will receive a further email by return confirming the ‘registration process is now complete’ and providing you with ‘your organisation’s account ID’ number. If an email response from HMRC is not received within one working day of your request, please contact sapariba.hmrcsupport@hmrc.gov.uk (after first checking your spam in-box) notifying non-receipt and confirming when your registration request was first made.

Once you have obtained ‘your organization’s account ID’ number, please provide your registered details in the form linked here.

You will be added to a sourcing event for this competition in SAP Ariba following the launch event.

Further information about HMRC’s procurement tool SAP Ariba, a Suppliers Guide and general information about supplying to HMRC is available on the HMRC website: www.hmrc.gov.uk/about/supplying.htm

If you have already registered on SAP Ariba then you may also need to re-register on HMRC’s SAP Ariba in order to be added to the event.

Register for launch event (you must be registered on SAP Ariba first)

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