NAO inquiry follows suspension of payments after erroneous records that claimants had emigratedAn HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) anti-fraud crackdown that stripped 23,000 families of their child benefit failed to “adequately...
Read MoreFindings of inquiry into stamp duty paid on Hove flat crucial to any leadership bidUK politics live – latest updatesAngela Rayner has been cleared by HMRC of deliberate wrongdoing or carelessness over her tax affairs, the...
Read MoreReform UK’s deputy leader comments came as he was responding to questions raised about his own tax affairsAll Britons should do their best to pay the minimum tax possible, Reform UK’s deputy leader has argued as he dismissed a...
Read MoreFlawed Home Office travel records identified thousands of parents suspected of claiming while living abroadThe UK’s public spending watchdog has launched an investigation into a controversial government anti-fraud scheme that...
Read MoreHampshire business seems to have benefited from ‘phoenixism’, which costs the taxpayer about £800m a yearA UK recruitment business has been acquired out of administration for a third time in four years as part of a succession of...
Read MoreAcquisition by Premier Group Recruitment boss Andrew Woosnam appears to be example of ‘phoenixism’A recruitment business that went bust owing the tax authorities and other creditors almost £3m has promised to send its staff on...
Read MoreTaxpayers talk of having to borrow cash and wait for months amid ‘significant backlogs’ in processing of claimsSome people are waiting a year or more for HM Revenue and Customs to refund overpaid tax and national insurance...
Read MoreSelect committee chair accuses UK tax authority of ‘egregious error’ and of causing parents unnecessary ‘pain’UK politics live – latest updatesSeven in 10 parents who had child benefit suspended in an HMRC fraud crackdown last...
Read MoreInternal documents show tax officials withdrew funds without warning families, despite concerns about dataUK politics live – latest updatesUK tax authorities believed that withdrawing child benefit payments from parentswithout...
Read MoreWhich? study of ChatGPT, Copilot and others uncovers incorrect and misleading tips on investments, tax and insuranceArtificial intelligence chatbots are giving inaccurate money tips, offering British consumers misleading tax...
Read MoreThousands of parents had their payments stopped after faulty data suggested they had left the UK and not returnedHMRC bosses have been accused of being “cavalier” with people’s finances after stripping child benefit from nearly...
Read MoreLetter demands answers after 23,500 families wrongly suspected of fraud when data showed they had left UKMPs are demanding answers from HMRC over a child benefit error in which payments were stopped to 23,500 families as part of...
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