ECSH44075 - The register: contents: contents of the register and reporting an unregistered business
Contents of the register and reporting an unregistered business
HMRC maintains a register of all the businesses it supervises under regulation 54 and 55 of the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 (MLR 2017).
This includes those who have applied for supervision, have applications awaiting to be accepted and had their applications accepted. Those in the approvals sectors who, by applying to register, can legally trade but whose applications have not yet been determined. Whereas those in the fit and proper sectors cannot trade until their application has been determined. Those businesses who are no longer undertaking relevant activity or have had their registration cancelled or suspended are removed from the register. A business can be registered for more than one business sector.
This summary shows details of:
- MLR registration number
- The date the business registered with Econimic Crime -Supervision
- Business name
- Trading name (if this differs from the business name because they may be an agent)
- The first part of the business premises’ postcode
- The business sector (including sub sectors or multiple sectors) the business has registered under.
- The status of the business registration (shown as applied where the registration is still being considered or approved once the registration has been determined).
A copy of the public register can be accessed from GOV.UK.
The published copy of the register is updated on GOV.UK each month.
Checking the register
The register allows officers, businesses and the public to check if a business is registered for supervision.
Reporting an unregistered business
The general public can report a business which is not registered under MLR 2017 using the HMRC fraud reporting tool on Gov.UK.
(This content has been withheld because of exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act 2000)