A taxpayer has won a £1,700 appeal after late penalty emails from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) were sent to her junk mail.

Judge Keith Jordan said the email alerts from HMRC about the penalty were "bland" enough to be mistaken as "spam and/or ...

HMRC said around half of scam reports in the past year involved fake tax rebate claims. There has been a 16.7% increase in all scam referrals to HMRC, with 144,298 received between November 2023 ...

People filling out their tax returns have been issued with a scam warning by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Britons are being cautioned against con artists trying to steal personal information and ...

According to the National Trading Standards eCrime unit, HMRC is particularly used by fraudsters to scam consumers around tax deadlines. The main aim of these emails is to steal money from your bank ...

A warning has been issued over scams ahead of an HMRC tax deadline affecting millions of people. The deadline to complete self assessment tax returns and pay any tax owed to HM Revenue and Customs ...

Concerned customers have reported nearly 150,000 scam referrals to HMRC in the last year, as Self Assessment filers are being cautioned to stay vigilant against fraudsters. With the deadline of 31 ...

An accountancy firm has warned businesses about a convincing scam letter which impersonates the HMRC tax office The letter, which uses a font that closely resembles the style of an HMRC letter ...

A HMRC scam letter to take out fraudulent loans is the "most believable" an expert has seen, it has been warned. An expert has called on HMRC to design 'scammer proof' letters amid the ongoing ...