HM Revenue & Customs

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HM Revenue & Customs

the department dealing with the former activities of the Inland Revenue and HM Customs & Excise. The two bodies were merged in 2005. The joint body is responsible for collecting the bulk of tax revenue, paying tax credits and child benefit, as well the enforcement of the national minimum wage and recovery of student loan repayments. It handles VALUE ADDED TAX. It also has responsibility for preventing banned goods like drugs and firearms from entering the country.

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A new tax collection body, known as the Welsh Revenue Authority (WRA), will be set up working in a similar way to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

Wales will raise its own taxes for stamp duty and landfill; Minister to launch tax collection bill which should raise PS300m for 2018-2019

Ed Miliband will also order an "aggressive" review into the practices of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, he said yesterday.

Ed's pledge to drub dodgers

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs have given Tracy Marie Martin, who lives in Formby, a penalty of PS47,312 on the basis of unpaid taxes of around PS70,000.

PS50k fine for tax-dodge pub landlady

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs workers in Carmarthen, Pembroke Dock, Merthyr Tydfil and Colwyn Bay are affected.

HMRC jobs under threat as tax work goes online

Last Thursday officers stopped a van in Cowpen Road, Blyth, which was checked by staff from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs and found to be unlawfully using red diesel.

Illegal diesel arrests

This workshop has been organised by the Anti-Money Laundering and Suspicious Cases Unit in cooperation with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) from the United Kingdom.

Asset recovery workshop held in Dubai

Keith Morgan, for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, said teams of officers were actively hunting law-breakers.

80,000 cigs netted in market raid

According to Bloomberg, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs has said that it would write to account holders of HSBC Holdings Plc (LSE: HSBA) in Geneva who are suspected of hiding their incomes and gains.

-Tax authority in UK to probe HSBC account holders in Geneva

An insider at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs said: "It is a shambles.

TAXMAN HAS NO PAPER LEFT FOR FINAL DEMANDS; Huge rise in defaulters uses up stock

Gascoigne, 43, who owes the taxman pounds 32,000, is fighting a bankruptcy petition brought by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.

Gascoigne bankruptcy hearing adjourned

At that hearing Deputy Registrar Clive Jones agreed to adjourn a petition for bankruptcy until today to give the star the chance to pay more than pounds 30,000 owed to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.

Bankruptcy move against Gascoigne

Dave Hartnett, Permanent Secretary for Tax at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, flew business class to Mumbai to take part in the low-key conference largely for Indian accountants and tax officials.