14 arrested in Romania for a £47 million UK tax phishing scam targeting over 100000 taxpayers.
Read: https://hackread.com/14-arrested-romania-47-million-uk-tax-phishing-scam/
100,000 UK taxpayer accounts hit in £47m phishing attack on HMRC https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/04/100000-uk-taxpayer-accounts-hit-in-47m-phishing-attack-on-hmrc #Consumeraffairs #Cybercrime #Technology #Politics #UKnews #Scams #Money #HMRC
The British State will always go after the little people, and let the big fraudsters off.
MPs on the Public Accounts Comm. have accused the HMRC as not being 'sufficiently curious' about the scope & range of tax evasion;
one interesting pointer is that before making online platforms liable for the VAT from overseas sellers the HMRC had estimated such evasion was costing around £300m a year; when imposed the tax take increased by £1.5bn (five times as much).
MPs rightly think this clearly demonstrates the HMRC underestimates evasion & needs to raise its game.
Abramovich revelations put heat on #HMRC over offshore #tax losses - https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-02-06/abramovich-revelations-put-heat-on-hmrc-over-offshore-tax-losses/ "MPs call for tax authority to crack down on offshore tax avoidance in wake of TBIJ reports" why is this even a question?
in the last year, the HMRC investigated 268 Code of Practice 9 cases in 2023-4.... which is down from 669 investigated in 2018-19.... now you might conclude there is much less serious tax fraud taking place, or (perhaps) the HMRC is losing interest in complex & difficult to investigate cases when they can get quicker results investigating individuals who have less effective (or indeed no) legal representation.
Or of course the HMRC was 'called off' by the previous Govt.?
There had to be a sneaky catch didn't there. #Eton start paying #vat now but #claim #money back for the previous 10 years! The start date should be the same on both. This is ridiculous.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/oct/12/eton-among-elite-private-schools-set-to-cash-in-on-windfall-from-new-vat-rules
#privateschool #scam #windfall #HMRC #independentschools
Gee, thanks #HMRC chatbot.
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another day, another HM Revenue And Customs we have sent your £500 debt to a recovery agency, also you have an unallocated £500 payment on your account WHO KNOWS WHAT THAT COULD BE FOR
'Was it #AngelaRayner who was fined millions by #HMRC? No, that was a #Tory
The man who reported #Labour’s deputy to the police can’t even say what he was complaining about. Meanwhile, there’s no getting away from the #ConservativeScandals'
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/23/angela-rayner-conservatives-scandals
#ToryBehaviour
Funny how #HMRC sent me an email to say I needed to file a tax return, but a physical letter when they decided I didn't after all.
Can you claim back pre trade expenses?
Yes!
A brief run down of what you can and cannot claim.
Abolish HMRC's New Regulations on Taxing Secondhand Sales - Sign the Petition! https://chng.it/LNRCw8zD via @UKChange
#petition #hmrc #secondhand
What's this I hear about a tax rate of 60%?
Loan charge debate in the House of Commons
@patispaton
Loan charge – another intergovernmental scandal impacting the lives of innocents, leading to suicides whilst scheme promoters are unscathed
#LoanCharge #LoanChargeScandal #LoanChargeDebate #HMRC
https://bylines.scot/economics/loan-charge-debate-in-the-house-of-commons/
#HMRC has not charged a single company over #TaxEvasion under landmark #legislation | HMRC | The Guardian
Long thread/5
So… won our dispute with HMRC over R&D tax credits. A year of worry for nothing. It must have cost them more to dispute our claim than the claim was worth.
Other developers & inventors have been caught in this campaign by HMRC.
Any R&D is huge investment of time & often an individuals personal money.
It should be encouraged by government. Not used as a clumsy way to claw back tax to fill a hole they created paying Baroness Mone or whatever.
This is a weird one.
HMRC are basically asking us to lie to them about December pay. Recording a different pay day than the actual pay day, because it could impact people on universal credit. That sounds like a very broken system.
It is also a tad unclear as they talk of normal or contractual pay day. We “normally” and “contractually” pay staff a week early in December. So I am not clear what they want me to put on RTI!
#PAYE #RTI #HMRC
