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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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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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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HMRC Is Shite (www.hmrcisshite.com), also available via the domain www.hmrconline.com, is brought to you by www.kenfrost.com "The Living Brand"HMRC issues inheritance tax update ahead of 'nightmare' raid on pension savingshttps://t.co/dkyzsyzH6x
— GB News (@GBNEWS) May 16, 2026
Whilst Rayner made full use of a VIP hotline (for royalty and high rankers) to expedite her tax cock up, the rest of use have to put up with this shit:
After 39 minutes on hold I have got through to HMRC to talk about erroneous interest charge on my self assesement. I can hear a baby in the background. After she spent 22 mins investigating, I was advised to write in as she couldn't help.
— Paul Hawkins (@Hawkeye_74) May 14, 2026
This is simply not good enough.
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On 1 April I stated:
"Figures from HMRC show that in the last four years the average length of time that Stamp Duty Land tax (SDLT) investigations have taken to complete is an average of 35 months. Rayner admitted she may have paid the wrong tax on 5 September last year, only seven months ago…"
This morning, Pippa Crerar (a political activist posing as a Guardian journalist) broke the news that Rayner has paid the £40K tax due and has been exonerated by HMRC of any wrong doing and was not "careless".
Tax experts, eg Dan Neidle, are having trouble believing this.
Disregarding whether she was "careless" or not, I am having serious trouble believing that a case that would normally take HMRC 35 months to investigate, has been sorted out in 7 months.
Ordinary taxpayers would not receive such swift service!
Please can someone in HMRC explain how it is that Rayner (on the very day there may be a leadership challenge) has received clearance from HMRC so quickly?
BTW, Rayner has been able to find this £40K because she has just been paid £50K by a newly formed company Refrigeration House Ltd for "staff costs".
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