News and communications

DWP updates plan to catch benefit cheats after saving £1.3bn last year alone

• Updated: 13 May 2024

Changes to HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) helpline services are being halted while it considers how best to help taxpayers harness online services.

• Updated: 20 March 2024

New legal proceedings and pre-action letters can be served on HMRC by email.

• Updated: 18 March 2024

HMRC has awarded 12 voluntary and community sector organisations a share of £5.5 million in funding to help customers with their tax affairs.

• Updated: 13 December 2023

HMRC will focus its Self Assessment helpline on priority queries from 11 December until 31 January. 

• Updated: 7 December 2023

Tax credits customers will receive the autumn Cost of Living Payment between 10 and 19 November 2023.

• Updated: 10 November 2023

HMRC encourages customers to sign up to Help to Save, the government savings scheme, after revealing savers shared £146 million in bonus payments.

• Updated: 31 October 2023

The Trader Support Service has been extended until December 2024.

• Updated: 29 September 2023

Hundreds of thousands of young adults could have an average of £2,000 waiting for them in their unclaimed Child Trust Fund account.

• Updated: 18 September 2023

HMRC interest rates for late payments will increase following the Bank of England interest rate rise to 5.25%.

• Updated: 4 August 2023

A tax avoidance promoter based in The Shard has been exposed by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) with users warned to withdraw or risk large tax bills.

• Updated: 2 August 2023

Richard Moriarty has been announced as the new CEO of the Financial Reporting Council today (31 July).

• Updated: 31 July 2023

Bids for the 2024 to 2027 Voluntary and Community Sector Grant Funding, worth £5.5 million, open on 24 July.

• Updated: 17 July 2023

HMRC interest rates for late payments will be revised following the Bank of England interest rate rise to 5%.

• Updated: 22 June 2023

HMRC is writing to UK residents named in the leaked Pandora Papers to give them the chance to correct their tax affairs.

• Updated: 12 June 2023

A trial to redirect Self Assessment queries from the helpline to HMRC's digital services will run between 12 June and 4 September 2023.

• Updated: 8 June 2023

HMRC has issued a warning to tax credits customers, who are renewing their tax credits claims, to be alert to scammers trying to steal their information.

• Updated: 30 May 2023

HMRC interest rates for late payments will be revised following the Bank of England interest rate rise to 4.5%.

• Updated: 11 May 2023

HMRC uses new legal powers to name tax avoidance schemes and their promoters, for the first time.

• Updated: 5 April 2023

HMRC interest rates for late payments will be revised following the Bank of England interest rate rise to 4.25%.

• Updated: 23 March 2023