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Valuation Office Agency scrapped in government drive to slash inefficiencies

  • Writer: EvansPayne
    EvansPayne
  • Apr 28
  • 1 min read

Reforms to cut red tape, make savings, and improve businesses’ experience of the tax system have been set out today (28 April 2025) by Tax Minister James Murray, helping to deliver the Plan for Change by creating the conditions for growth.


From: HM Treasury Published 28 April 2025


  • VOA to become part of HMRC to increase efficiency, business experience and ministerial accountability

  • Comes ahead of government’s review of the status of hundreds of Arm’s-Length Bodies to rewire Whitehall for a more agile state

  • Measure features as part of government’s Tax Update: Simplification, Administration and Reform (TUSAR) published today


As part of the government’s drive to slash red tape, increase oversight and ministerial accountability and rewire Whitehall to be more productive and agile, the Valuation Office Agency (VOA), the arm’s-length body (ALB) responsible for valuing properties for council tax and business rates, will be brought into its parent department HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) by April 2026.



 
 
 

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