In the annals of bureaucratic bungles, few rival the sheer incompetence on display from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) this October 20...

  HMRC has closed all of its phone lines and can't say when they will reopen, leaving taxpayers with urgent queries in the lurch. On Fr...

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It seems that HMRC has uncovered decades worth of pension data errors. The Telegraph reported over the weekend that tens of thousand...

Our old chums from Crapita have hit the headlines recently, having accidentally charged 17,000 former miners tens of thousands of pounds...

I for one would like to stand up and applaud HMRC for messing up the 2017 tax filing season in ways unseen since the year mandatory onl...

The ICAEW has become aware of more errors in HMRC’s self assessment (SA) calculations and a number of other current SA issues. All in ...

As per The Register : " Almost 1,500 software developers registered to use the UK taxman's sandbox or API platform have had t...

As loyal readers know, getting through to HMRC on the phone is something of an endurance test. As such, it should come as no surprise to ...

My thanks to Elaine Clark for pointing me to an article in the Telegraph about leaked emails from HMRC, that indicate 5 million taxpayers...

In May I wrote about the oncoming clusterfuck aka Osborne's child benefit changes, one issue noted was that the changes could creat...

Loyal readers with good memories may recall that I have written a couple of times before about a loyal reader who dropped me a note conc...

As if anyone could be surprised by this, the "good ship" RTI appears to be sinking fast barely three days after it was launched...

Now here's a plan (originally mooted in 2010 that appears to have resurfaced) that is guaranteed to fail, if it is enacted. HMRC ar...

According to IFAonline , some 270,000 people have decided to opt out of receiving child benefit following changes to eligibility rules. ...

The coalition's child benefit reforms come into force today. Under the new system, any family where one earner takes home more tha...

Oh dear Margaret Hodge (Chairman of PAC) continues to be "underwhelmed" by HMRC's less than stellar performance. She i...

The ICAEW Tax Faculty has vented its spleen about the government's proposals in the recent Budget for a tax charge on high earners ...