{"id":2511,"date":"2025-04-04T06:53:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T06:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/2511\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T06:53:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T06:53:20","slug":"hmrc-gives-500-investigators-approval-to-begin-crackdown-on-uk-households","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/2511\/","title":{"rendered":"HMRC gives 500 investigators approval to begin ‘crackdown’ on UK households"},"content":{"rendered":"

HMRC is cracking down on tax evasion with higher penalties for those who pay fees late, as HMRC recruits a whopping 500 new officers in a bid to claw back cash and weed out rule-breakers.\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/cost-of-living\/hmrc-writing-uk-households-demanding-31337879\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/cost-of-living\/hmrc-writing-uk-households-demanding-31337879<\/p>\n

A HMRC taskforce of 500 people are set to “crack down” on the eye-watering \u00a344 billion tax gap. <\/a>HMRC is cracking down on tax evasion with higher penalties for those who pay fees late, as HMRC recruits a whopping 500 new officers in a bid to claw back cash and weed out rule-breakers.<\/p>\n

Charlene Young, senior pensions and savings expert at AJ Bell, has spoken out over the tax department’s new clampdown.<\/p>\n

Ms Young said: \u201cOne thing that\u2019s always found on our Budget bingo <\/a>card is a crackdown on tax evasion. It\u2019s no surprise given the \u00a344 billion of unpaid tax due to HMRC, a figure more than double the level five years ago according to the Spring Statement documents.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn addition to measures to tackle non-compliance announced in her October budget and plans to pay tax whistleblowers a share of tax they help to recover, the chancellor has committed to fund over 500 extra compliance officers and new technology to aid automated recovery.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith taxpayers facing hours on hold to HMRC in recent years, or even being chucked off a waiting call, it\u2019s fair to assume that the push to digital and increased fines with tighter timescales will be met with a degree of cynicism.\u201d<\/p>\n

A shift to \u2018Making Tax Digital\u2019 will come with higher penalties for late payment from April 2025 in a two-tier penalty system while under the new rules, a taxpayer owing \u00a325,000 income tax will owe over \u00a328,000 after four months.<\/p>\n

The new rules were unveiled by the Labour Party<\/a> after the Spring Statement from Chancellor Rachel Reeves last week.<\/p>\n

Under MTD, late payment penalties for VAT taxpayers and income taxpayers will be 3% of the tax outstanding where tax is overdue by 15 days; plus 3% where tax is overdue by 30 days.<\/p>\n

That is plus 10% a year where tax is overdue by 31 days or more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HMRC is cracking down on tax evasion with higher penalties for those who pay fees late, as HMRC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,1016,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-2511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-hmrc","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114278380491390908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}