As business owners, it's always nice if you can shave some money off your running costs, but spare a moment for our HMRC, who are aiming at reducing their annual bill by
HRMC have said they'll make a more determined effort to go after the "big boys" evading tax so that could explain why they're hopeful of increasing the tax take. You'd expect them to have to employ more highly trained, experienced and tough-minded tax inspectors to do that though ...
They're probably doing less routine chasing of very small businesses - that'd reduce their costs but hardly affect tax take.