Self-assessment phishing and phone scam alert raised
The UK’s tax authorities have issued an official warning to contractors to watch out for self-assessment scams - and they don’t mean IR35 for a change.
According to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), fraudsters see self-employed individuals as a good target and are pulling off a wide variety of cons around purported tax rebates. The problem peaks between now and the tax deadline of January 31, hence the warning on Wednesday.
“Over the last year, HMRC received nearly 900,000 reports from the public about suspicious HMRC contact – phone calls, texts or emails,” a release from the Revenue reads. “More than 100,000 of these were phone scams, while over 620,000 reports from the public were about bogus tax rebates.”
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