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HMRC Rules That Deployment of a Reservist To Ukraine Constituted a "Break"

 

Excl: An Army reservist who served on a Ukraine mission was denied paternity pay after HMRC ruled his deployment counted as a “break” from work.

The soldier returned home, went back to work and became a dad weeks later - only to be told he wasn’t entitled to a penny.…

— Martina Bet (@martinabettt) May 25, 2026

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Rachel's Summertime Specials

 

Now that Rachel is dishing out VAT discounts on kids' meals, I assume a task force will be set up in HMRC to produce reams of documents analysing exactly what a kid's meal is?

Good luck with that then!

Oh, and although Rachel trumpeted this, she hasn't been so vocal about plans to whack 20% on various airport charges over the summertime! 

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FACTOID Re The BMW FOI

I know the name of the person who raised the BMW FOI and followed up on it, let me be 100% clear it was not whoever it is going under the moniker "Exposing The Corrupt". 

Thank you for your attention in this matter. 

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People Smuggling Under The Very Noses of HMRC

 

This report from the BBC (see extract below) highlights large cash payments being made in highstreet shops for smuggling illegals into the UK, these payments are meant to be picked up by HMRC as part of their AML monitoring procedures.

HMRC supervises many "high-risk" businesses for AML compliance, including money service businesses (MSBs), informal value transfer systems (like hawala-style operations), high-cash businesses (car washes, phone shops, wholesalers), and others. These are exactly the types of entities named in the BBC report.

Wake up guys! 

People smugglers are directing migrants to pay for illegal Channel crossings using a network of UK-registered businesses, a BBC investigation has found.

We secretly filmed staff at a shop in south-east London telling an undercover researcher that nearly £3,000 in cash could be deposited with them and sent to a smuggler in France.

"You put your money here. If your friends reach [the UK], you shouldn't come back," we were told at the mobile phone store in Woolwich.

Our three-month investigation gives insight into how smugglers appear to be using UK companies' bank accounts to facilitate small-boat crossings - something a leading expert in criminal finance told us he had not seen before.

Our findings suggest a "brazen attitude" by smugglers, says Tom Keatinge, from the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) security think tank.

"It is a concern that... people feel sufficiently confident they can be out in the open."

As well as the phone shop, the smuggler in France provided the bank account details of two UK-registered companies, which he said could both take electronic transfers for migrant crossings.

One is a wholesale business in Newcastle upon Tyne, the other is a car wash in Cambridgeshire.

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The Oncoming Pension Clusterfuck

 

HMRC issues inheritance tax update ahead of 'nightmare' raid on pension savingshttps://t.co/dkyzsyzH6x

— GB News (@GBNEWS) May 16, 2026

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