{"id":31940,"date":"2019-11-21T07:05:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T07:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/uk-tax-collectors-warn-contractors-about-being-ripped-off-and-not-by-hmrc-for-a-change\/"},"modified":"2019-11-21T07:05:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T07:05:04","slug":"uk-tax-collectors-warn-contractors-about-being-ripped-off-and-not-by-hmrc-for-a-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/uk-tax-collectors-warn-contractors-about-being-ripped-off-and-not-by-hmrc-for-a-change\/","title":{"rendered":"UK tax collectors warn contractors about being ripped-off \u2013 and not by HMRC for a change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s tax authorities have issued an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/hmrc-tips-on-avoiding-self-assessment-tax-scams\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official warning<\/a> to contractors to watch out for self-assessment scams &#8211; and they don\u2019t mean IR35 for a change.<\/p>\n<p>According to Her Majesty\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last year, HMRC received nearly 900,000 reports from the public about suspicious HMRC contact \u2013 phone calls, texts or emails,\u201d a release from the Revenue reads. \u201cMore than 100,000 of these were phone scams, while over 620,000 reports from the public were about bogus tax rebates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The biggest scam targeting the millions of self-assessment filers is a phone call from someone claiming to be from the Inland Revenue and offering a tax refund. Also prevalent is an email or text message containing a link that also claims to offer a refund. That link will \u201ctake customers to a false page, where their bank details and money will be stolen,\u201d the British government warns.<\/p>\n<p>Watch out for heavy-handed tactics too, the authorities warn, with another scam featuring someone threatening the individual with arrest or imprisonment if you don\u2019t immediately pay a bogus tax bill.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how you know if it\u2019s a scam: the revenue service will never directly contact you asking for bank details or passwords or PINs. It also won\u2019t send links in texts or emails or send attachments. So if you receive any of them, they&#8217;re not legit.<\/p>\n<p>The reason self-employed people are being targeted by the scam is because they typically have to file their own tax return and send funds to the government themselves. Most people pay taxes automatically through their employer and so never have to go through the hassle and confusion of figuring out the over-complicated UK tax system.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, fake rebate scams and aggressive demands to pay bogus tax bills are prevalent in the US, where most people are still required to submit their own tax return.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"crosshead\"><span>Copycat phishers<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Another thing to keep an eye out for, HMRC has warned, is copycat websites that have addresses similar to the real Revenue website. It advises that people \u201calways type in the full online address www.gov.uk\/hmrc to obtain the correct link.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Which is not very realistic but then it doesn\u2019t want to advise people to use Google because scammers can buy misleading ads on Google to lead netizens to the wrong site.<\/p>\n<p>HMRC does have a customer protection team that shuts down such scams, apparently, and it has various reporting tools and hotlines. You can email phishing@hmrc.gov.uk or text 60599. Or use Action Fraud\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/reporting-fraud-and-cyber-crime\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online reporting tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"promo_article\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2019\/02\/13\/shutterstock_letter_tear.jpg?x=174&amp;y=115&amp;crop=1\" width=\"174\" height=\"115\" alt=\"tearing up enveloApe\/letter\"><\/p>\n<h2 title=\"HMRC vows to appeal\">IT contractor has \u00a3240k bill torn up after IR35 win against UK taxman<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2019\/11\/04\/it_contractor_wins_ir35_appeal_against_hmrc\/\"><span>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>But if all fails, you can use this simple guide: if someone contacts you offering a tax rebate, it\u2019s just not going to be true because in the rare event you do have one, you are going to have to grip it with both hands and pull it out the clenched fist of the Inland Revenue.<\/p>\n<p>They are not going to give you money without you working for it, my friend. And they definitely aren\u2019t going to call you to tell you that they owe you money. It\u2019s not Chris Tarrant, it\u2019s the flaming taxman. Get a grip.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, if you are contacted by someone demanding you pay your tax bill and they give you the option to do so quickly and simply, then it is also an obvious scam: because HMRC is utterly incapable of making anything that simple.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you have to go through a series of mindbogglingly confusing, contradictory pages filled with turgid text and are forced to spend several hours trying to figure out if you need to fill in that box or not, and if so with what information, then \u2013 congratulations \u2013 you have found HMRC\u2019s real self-assessment platform and all is well. \u00ae<\/p>\n<p class=\"wptl btm\"><span>Sponsored:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.co.uk\/tl\/1858\/-7802\/technical-overview-exasol-peek-under-the-hood?td=wptl1858\">Technical Overview: Exasol Peek Under the Hood<\/a><\/p>\n<p>READ MORE <a 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