VAT register inactivity. HMRC may contact you by phone call or email if they believe you no longer need to hold a VAT registration number, due to recent inactivity on your VAT account.

Currently, HMRC tells business owners and accountants it could take up to 40 working days, around eight weeks, to deal with a VAT registration request.

In /Performance Leads vs HMRC [1]/ [2025] UKFTT 660 (TC), the taxpayer successfully argued before the first tier tribunal (FTT) that it supplied ...

Increased tax compliance measures have yielded £11.4bn in unpaid tax as investigations into rich people and mid-size businesses grew. The sum came as HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) opened 23% more ...

On HMRC's website, on the summer closure of their telephone line, it states that they will be dealing with only 6,600 urgent calls a day.' 'I dread logging into work' ...

Contact HMRC. You can also check if a business is VAT-registered by contacting HMRC directly. Call the HMRC VAT Helpline on 0300 200 3700 and provide the VAT number you want to validate. A HMRC ...

A Cardiff man was hit with tax bills totalling £500,000 from 11,000 firms, mostly from China, after HMRC allowed them to register for VAT to his address.. The extraordinary case “looks to all ...

HMRC has found “no evidence of fraud” in a case where 12,000 Chinese companies changed their addresses to a flat in Cardiff. Flat owner Dylan Davies has received thousands of tax bills for the ...

At the end of last year there has been a 16.7% increase in all scam referrals to HMRC, with 144,298 received between November 2023 and October 2024, up from 123, 596 in the previous 12-month period.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has released new guidance on how to check if a phone call you've received from them is genuine. It comes after the government department confirmed that some people will ...

VAT visits and inspections. HMRC may contact you by phone call, email or letter to arrange VAT visits and inspections. VAT register inactivity. Show more.