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Download HMRC Creative Industries tax relief statistics

Source: R/hmrc_creative_industries.R
hmrc_creative_industries.Rd

Downloads and tidies Table 1 (annual time series) of the HMRC Creative Industries Statistics for each of the eight creative-industries reliefs: Film, High-end TV, Animation, Children's TV, Video Games, Theatre, Orchestra, and Museums and Galleries Exhibition. Published annually each August.

Usage

hmrc_creative_industries(sector = NULL, tax_year = NULL, cache = TRUE)

Source

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/creative-industries-statistics

Arguments

sector

Character vector or NULL (default = all sectors). Valid values: "film", "high_end_tv", "animation", "childrens_tv", "video_games", "theatre", "orchestra", "museum".

tax_year

Character vector or NULL (default = all years).

cache

Logical. Use cached file if available (default TRUE).

Value

An hmrc_tbl with columns:

sector

Character. Creative-industries sector identifier.

tax_year

Character. Tax year, e.g. "2023-24".

companies

Numeric. Number of companies (where reported).

claims

Numeric. Number of claims (where reported).

productions

Numeric. Number of productions (films, games, etc., where reported).

relief_gbp_m

Numeric. Amount of relief paid, GBP million.

status

Character. HMRC revision status (e.g. "Unchanged", "Provisional").

Details

Creative Industries reliefs are paid on an accruals basis. The latest tax year in each sector's table is provisional and uplifted by HMRC for claims not yet received; status is recorded in the status column. Sector tables differ slightly in their column set (films track productions, video games track productions, theatre tracks claims/productions, museums track exhibitions, etc.); columns absent from a sector's table are returned as NA.

See also

Other data fetchers: hmrc_capital_gains(), hmrc_corporation_tax(), hmrc_fuel_duties(), hmrc_income_tax_stats(), hmrc_inheritance_tax(), hmrc_patent_box(), hmrc_property_transactions(), hmrc_rd_credits(), hmrc_stamp_duty(), hmrc_tax_gap(), hmrc_tax_receipts(), hmrc_tobacco_duties(), hmrc_vat()

Examples

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#>    sector tax_year companies claims productions relief_gbp_m
#> 1    film  2006-07        55     60          55           65
#> 2    film  2007-08       180    215         175          123
#> 3    film  2008-09       245    285         245          139
#> 4    film  2009-10       290    340         285          178
#> 5    film  2010-11       315    370         320          212
#> 6    film  2011-12       320    375         330          240
#> 7    film  2012-13       330    390         350          200
#> 8    film  2013-14       405    480         425          264
#> 9    film  2014-15       470    560         495          307
#> 10   film  2015-16       535    600         590          412
#> 11   film  2016-17       595    660         665          532
#> 12   film  2017-18       675    780         755          530
#> 13   film  2018-19       745    830         865          584
#> 14   film  2019-20       830    950         955          627
#> 15   film  2020-21       675    760         800          418
#> 16   film  2021-22       720    815         870          520
#> 17   film  2022-23       785    880         955          553
#> 18   film  2023-24       830    960         980          534
#>                  status
#> 1             Unchanged
#> 2             Unchanged
#> 3             Unchanged
#> 4             Unchanged
#> 5             Unchanged
#> 6             Unchanged
#> 7             Unchanged
#> 8             Unchanged
#> 9             Unchanged
#> 10            Unchanged
#> 11            Unchanged
#> 12            Unchanged
#> 13            Unchanged
#> 14            Unchanged
#> 15              Revised
#> 16              Revised
#> 17 Provisional, revised
#> 18          Provisional
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#> # Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/creative-industries-statistics-august-2025
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#>         sector tax_year companies claims productions relief_gbp_m      status
#> 1    animation  2023-24       105    120          NA           33 Provisional
#> 2 childrens_tv  2023-24        80     90          NA           56 Provisional
#> 3         film  2023-24       830    960         980          534 Provisional
#> 4  high_end_tv  2023-24       570    685          NA         1110 Provisional
#> 5       museum  2023-24       270    270        2155           28 Provisional
#> 6    orchestra  2023-24       250    260         745           50 Provisional
#> 7      theatre  2023-24      1320   1380        4205          261 Provisional
#> 8  video_games  2023-24       495    560        1140          327 Provisional
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