54 h. ago HMRC issues update on ‘biggest change’ in income tax for 30 years

Thousands of people are testing the Making Tax Digital system before it becomes mandatory for some next year

Politics

56 h. ago HMRC issues apology in update that could affect 23,5000 claimants

The HMRC has issued an update over a system that was designed to tackle mistakes and fraud in the system

Politics

58 h. ago HMRC issues update after 23,500 Child Benefit payments suspended

As part of a new pilot scheme to tackle fraud, HMRC used travel data to decide whether someone had left the country permanently

Economics

3 d. ago Thousands of child benefit claimants given major update by HMRC over suspended payments

HMRC has issued a major update for tens of thousands of child benefit claimants who had their payments suspended. Some 23,500 UK households were stripped of their child benefit as part of a new crackdown on fraud. Child benefit claimants have their payments stopped if they leave the UK for more than eight weeks under...

Economics

3 d. ago HMRC to review suspension of child benefit payments to 23,500 people

Those cases affected are now being reviewed after a growing number of complaints from people who briefly left the UK and returned to find their payments had been stopped

Economics

2 w. ago HMRC issues update for state pensioners over £83 payment reductions

A person asked if their tax code would be affected

Economics

2 w. ago HMRC cuts child benefit for 23,500 families based on incomplete travel data

UK tax agency apologises after flagging people as having emigrated, often when they return via different routesParents who went from Liverpool to Amsterdam with their autistic children are among thousands who have had their child benefit wrongly stopped as part of a crackdown on benefit fraud, it has emerged.The error by HM Revenue and Customs emerged 48 hours after the Guardian and the Detail reported on hundreds of families in Northern Ireland who had child benefit stopped after they returned home from holiday via Dublin airport, leaving HMRC with the impression they had taken a one-way ticket out of the country and were fraudulently collecting child benefit. Continue reading...

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