Last week, AccountingWEB user Cholmes first reported receiving five late penalty notices from HMRC – with only one of the...

An EU national is challenging HMRC over new rules that require tax authorities around the world to automatically exchange information on...

Under the The Investigatory Powers Bill (recently approved by the House of Lords) internet providers will be forced to keep a full re...

Those of you with long memories will know that HMRC has form wrt breaches in data security (eg Datagate). It should therefore come as n...

Those of you with long memories will recall datagate 2007 , when HMRC lost data records of around 25 million people. Stepping forward t...

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...

In May I wrote about a loyal reader who dropped me a note concerning HMRC changing her address details (without her permission), and se...

My thanks to a loyal reader who dropped me a note over the weekend concerning HMRC changing her address details (without her permission),...

As HMRC moves towards its paperless dream, it will hand out 7,000 tablets and laptops to employees in an effort to improve their mobility....

I am aware that many loyal readers have regularly posted comments on this site expressing their views that the government intends to priva...

My thanks to a loyal reader who sent me a copy of this missive that he received from HMRC, in which they admit that they took two months...

My thanks to a loyal reader who recently sent me a copy of the response that she received from HMRC, regarding a Freedom of Information ...

The Guardian reports that HMRC are going to use robots (internet bots) to hunt down tax evaders. The bots will scour the net to find people...

It seems that even ex staff of HMRC cannot quite shake the HMRC curse. A loyal reader (ex HMRC) informs me of the following problem that he ...

The Bournemouth Echo reports that HMRC are conducting an "urgent" inquiry after a parcel containing 42 private companies' tax...

When an organisation or individual has a problem, until that organisation/person admits to themselves and others that they have a problem th...

HMRC seems to be developing an addiction to sharing people's private financial details with the wider world. Not content with the Dataga...

Public Service reports that the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) and GCHQ are working on a new network to collaborate with other agencies....

Here's an interesting "little" story about some stolen data files, no not the "datagate" files of 25 million British...

Following the datagate scandal in 2007, when HMRC lost the personal details of around 25 million people, HMRC have launched an extensive ret...