HM Revenue and Customs

Today’s businesses are facing tough times and the most successful know when to make use of the available help.  That help is at hand for businesses during August when HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) continues to bring its programme of free workshops to locations throughout Northern Ireland.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has seized eleven vehicles from a coach hire company in Omagh today (Thursday) as part of ongoing activity targeting fuel fraud.

A Lancashire man who hid £700,000 inside his Chorley chip shop and behind bushes at his home in an attempt to avoid paying tax and excise duty has been jailed for a total of two years and two months today.

A self-employed car parts dealer who fraudulently underpaid tax of £270,000 over a 22 year period by failing to declare his income to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has been jailed for fifteen months today.

Debt collection agencies will be used by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) during 2010-11 to collect an additional £140m of tax debt.

Trade views are being sought on proposals to change the special tax rules for furnished holiday homes which are let out commercially during the year.

Agents’ views are being sought on proposals to change the special tax rules for furnished holiday homes which are let out commercially during the year.

We want to hear your views of how the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) system can be improved to make it more efficient for millions of taxpayers.  

Two arms dealers who sold  military body armour to entities in the middle east and Iraq were sentenced today at Southwark Crown Court, after an investigation by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).

The ringleader of a gang who laundered £30m of criminal cash through a network of money transfer offices was jailed at Southwark Crown Court today for 10 years, following a complex investigation by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).

Today’s businesses are facing tough times and the most successful know what help is available and make use of it. That help is at hand for businesses in Sefton area on 22 July when HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) brings a free Local Business Advice Open Day (Local BAOD) to Southport.

Today’s businesses are facing tough times and the most successful know what help is available and make use of it. That help is at hand for businesses in Halton area on 20 July when HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) brings a free Local Business Advice Open Day (Local BAOD) to Runcorn

Today’s businesses are facing tough times and the most successful know when to make use of the available help.  That help is at hand for businesses during July when HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) continues to bring its programme of free workshops to locations throughout Northern Ireland.

Justine Greening, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, today signed significant anti-smuggling agreements with the international tobacco manufacturer British American Tobacco (BAT).

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is sending an urgent reminder to tax credit claimants – renew your claim by the 31 July deadline, or your payments will stop.

Six members of a gang who used high-tech equipment to turn out 24 fake bottles of vodka a minute were jailed at Southwark Crown Court today for more than 56 years following a complex international investigation by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).

Two men and a woman have been arrested by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) officers following a raid of premises in Ballymena today (Friday) targeting the storage and sale of illicit tobacco.

A West Midlands couple who cheated the tax system and profited by around £1m from their criminal activities have been ordered to repay £752,303 from the proceeds of their crimes or serve a total of six years in prison.

Two members of a 21-strong criminal tax fraud gang have been ordered to re-pay a record £92.3m in the biggest ever confiscation order secured by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).

Eleven members of a Ukrainian crime gang who stole £4.5m through tax fraud have been jailed for a total of more than 40 years today at Southwark Crown Court following a complex investigation by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).

Today’s businesses are facing tough times and the most successful know what help is available and make use of it.   That help is at hand for businesses in Lancashire on 15 July when HM Revenue & Customs brings a free Local Business Advice Open Day (Local BAOD) to Burnley.

The ringleader of a criminal gang, who fraudulently obtained £1.3 million in VAT refunds, was claimed to be dead in an attempt to derail enquiries into their activities.

With the 31 July deadline for renewing tax credits claims fast approaching, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is urging families and individuals who haven’t yet done so to renew their claims now.

A London accountant has been jailed for eight years for stealing £11m in income tax and Value Added Tax (VAT) by manipulating both his clients’ and his own tax returns.

A lorry driver, who illegally imported 5.4 million cigarettes into the UK hidden in apple boxes, was jailed for two years and eight months today. If successfully smuggled the cigarettes would have cost an estimated £1million in lost revenue to the taxpayer.

A Manchester optician, who paid his staff at rates up to 40% less than they were entitled to, has become the first employer in the north west to be successfully prosecuted for National Minimum Wage (NMW) offences.  He was fined £3,696.

An HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) debt collection officer was jailed today for two and a half years at Hereford Crown Court after he pleaded guilty to stealing nearly £85,000 from taxpayers.

A diesel laundering plant, hidden in a remote farm building, has polluted an extensive area of marshland in South Armagh.  The illegal operation, capable of producing up to 1.75 million litres of illicit fuel a year, evading almost £1.2 million of revenue, has been dismantled today by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).

A Lancashire businessman, who illegally imported 21.3 million counterfeit cigarettes into Southampton Container Port, was jailed today for five and a half years following an investigation by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is issuing a reminder to businesses affected by new online filing requirements for VAT returns.

Three men were arrested in dawn raids this morning on suspicion of stealing nearly £300,000 in a VAT repayment fraud linked to the chainsaw industry.

UK Regional Trade in Goods estimates are released today, for the first quarter 2010.

Today’s businesses are facing tough times and the most successful know what help is available and make use of it. That help is at hand for businesses in Berkshire next week when HM Revenue & Customs brings a free Business Advice Open Day (BAOD) to Newbury.

Today’s businesses are facing tough times and the most successful know what help is available and make use of it.   That help is at hand for businesses in north Wales later this month when HM Revenue & Customs brings a free Business Advice Open Day (BAOD) to Llandudno.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has launched a series of new online videos to help tax credit claimants through the annual renewal process.

A single telephone number for agents will be introduced today to make it easier to contact HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).

A cargo company operations manager, who used his position of authority to illegally import 7.2 million cigarettes into the UK through Heathrow Airport in air freight shipments, was jailed for five years today. The potential revenue loss on the smuggled cigarettes is estimated at £1.3 million.

Three men have been arrested following investigations by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) into a multi-million cigarette smuggling scam in the Ballymena area.

Employers, payroll agents and accountants in south Wales are being invited to meet HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) for free payroll advice at the Liberty Stadium, Swansea on Tuesday 15 June. 

Employers, payroll agents and accountants in Northern Ireland are being invited to meet HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) for free payroll advice at the Ramada Hotel, Belfast on Tuesday 8 June.