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  • Know your worth - check your apprentice pay rates

    Know your worth - check your apprentice pay rates

    During National Apprenticeship Week HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is encouraging apprentices to claim the money that is rightfully theirs. Whether that’s making sure you’re being paid the correct hourly rate to claiming the savings in your Child Trust Fund, this is how to do it.
    Know your worth
    You’ve started an apprenticeship, you’re bringing home a wage, but are you getting paid correct

  • Post-payment checks to begin on Eat Out to Help Out scheme

    HMRC is beginning to write to selected Eat Out to Help Out (EOTHO) claimants to ask them to check their claims.
    The EOTHO scheme saw more than 84,000 food and drink establishments take part and offer a 50% discount on eligible purchases on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays during August 2020.
    HMRC worked quickly to set up a system to pay restaurants within five working days. Controls were bui

  • Illegal filling station shut down in Lancashire

    Illegal filling station shut down in Lancashire

    A diesel laundering plant and illegal filling station, capable of evading £14.5 million in duty a year, have been dismantled by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in the Darwen area of Lancashire.

  • Payback time for Fermanagh farmer

    Payback time for Fermanagh farmer

    A Fermanagh farmer, who was jailed for stealing nearly £500,000 in fraudulent VAT repayments, has been ordered to repay £60,000 or serve a further two years in prison.

  • Tyrone farmer jailed for VAT fraud

    Tyrone farmer jailed for VAT fraud

    A Co Tyrone farmer who tried to steal over £1.3 million in a VAT fraud has been jailed for 16 months after an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).