HMRC Closing VAT Registration Helpline in 5 Days!

 

HMRC is closing its VAT registration helpline on Monday, May 22, 2023. The helpline was a subsidiary of the main VAT helpline and was dedicated specifically to helping taxpayers who had a concern around their VAT registration application. Advisers from this helpline will be redeployed to spend their entire time processing VAT registration applications instead of answering calls through the helpline.

HMRC says the decision to close the helpline was made after a review of taxpayer service offerings. The agency says it is committed to being responsive to taxpayer needs and to ensuring that its business model represents the best possible value for money for the taxpayer.

HMRC says taxpayers who have a concern around their VAT registration application can still get help by contacting the main VAT helpline on 0300 200 3701. 

This is of course a load of old wank. 

Agents were originally told in an email from HMRC that the service will close on 22 May 2024. As such people have been given just 5 days notice!

This is yet another example of HMRC talking bollocks wrt caring about handling taxpayer queries!

Tax does have to be taxing.

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