One week left to renew your tax credits, HMRC warns
More than 171,350 tax credits customers have until 31 July to renew their annual claim and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is urging them to not miss out.
Stronger powers to combat illicit tobacco come into force
More than 27 million illicit cigarettes and 7,500kg of hand-rolling tobacco were seized under Operation CeCe in its first two years, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and National Trading Standards have revealed.
HMRC pledges £5.5 million in partnership funding to support customers who need extra help
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is awarding £5.5 million to organisations within the voluntary and community sector to support customers who may need extra help with their tax affairs.
27,844 tax credits customers renew via HMRC app
Almost 28,000 customers have used the HMRC app to renew their annual tax credits claim, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) can reveal.
One month to go until Alcohol Duty system changes
Today marks one month until the biggest Alcohol Duty reforms in 140 years come into effect.
On 1 August 2023, the Alcohol Duty system will become much simpler, taxing all alcoholic drinks based on their alcohol by volume (ABV).
This replaces the current Alcohol Duty system, which consists of four separate taxes covering beer, cider, spirits, wine and made-wine.
It will make the system
One month left to renew for more than 300,000 tax credits customers
Tax credits customers have a month to renew their claim or risk having their payments stopped, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has warned.
10.8 million cigarettes seized at Belfast port
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is investigating after 10.8 million illegal cigarettes were seized at Belfast Port. The cigarettes, worth around £5.3million in unpaid taxes, were seized by HMRC working alongside Border Force, on 20 June, 2023. The cigarettes were found packed in cardboard boxes inside a container that had been scanned by Border Force. No arrests have been made.
Tax gap holds steady at 4.8%
The amount of unpaid UK tax has remained at an all-time low of 4.8%, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) revealed today (22 June).
Cigarette smuggling gang jailed for 26 years
A gang caught red-handed with millions of counterfeit cigarettes at a Lincolnshire farm has been handed prison sentences totalling 26 years.
The small village of Midville, in East Lindsey, was the unlikely base for the gang who were caught with more than 6.5millon cigarettes, worth more than £1.8m in evaded duty.
Officers from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) arrested Marcin Kopec, 44, and Woj
Twenty-seven sentenced in Northern Ireland’s biggest ever tax fraud case
The ringleaders of a gang who triggered Northern Ireland’s biggest ever tax probe have been jailed thanks to secretly recorded conversations in a bugged accountant’s office. The decade-long investigation into the £5 million tax fraud ended yesterday with prison sentences issued to gang leaders 58-year-old Francis Devlin and 56-year-old Paul McStravick for a combined total of eight years.
Deadline for voluntary National Insurance contributions extended to April 2025
Taxpayers now have until 5 April 2025 to fill gaps in their National Insurance record from April 2006 that may increase their State Pension - an extension of nearly two years - the government announced today (12 June).
HMRC gives offshore customers chance to come clean
UK residents who were named in the leaked Pandora Papers are being given the chance to correct their tax affairs.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is writing to UK residents named in the files of 14 offshore financial service providers. These providers specialise in companies, trusts, and foundations in low, or no tax, jurisdictions.
The letters, which started going out this month, warn recip
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