What we do

We are the UK’s tax authority. We are responsible for making sure that the money is available to fund the UK’s public services and for helping families and individuals with targeted financial support.

HMRC is a non-ministerial department, supported by 2 agencies and public bodies.

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We work on these topics

  1. Tax and revenue

    Our tax system should be efficient and fair. It should reward work and support aspiration. The government collects taxes to fund public services, and help families and individuals with targeted financial support. Read more

Our policies

  1. Reducing tax evasion and avoidance

    HMRC works to reduce tax evasion and avoidance, including preventing evasion and avoidance, giving people opportunities to declare what they owe, and prosecuting more people who break the law.

  2. Making it easier for HMRC customers to deal with their taxes

    HMRC's work to make it easy for customers to deal with their taxes and get things right, by making our products and processes more simple and straightforward, and by improving our customer service.

  3. Creating a simpler, fairer tax system

    How the government is reforming the tax system to help improve the state of the public finances, promote economic growth and reward those who work and support families.

See all our policies

Documents

Our announcements

  1. Employment Allowance: one month to go until businesses can claim £2k cashback on jobs

    • 6 March 2014
    • News story

  2. Government gets tough with employers failing to pay minimum wage

    • 28 February 2014
    • Press release

See all our announcements

Our consultations

  1. A review of two aspects of the tax rules on partnerships

    • 7 March 2014
    • Consultation outcome

  2. Single market: free movement of goods report: review of the balance of competences

    • 17 February 2014
    • Consultation outcome

See all our consultations

Our publications

  1. Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit right to reside test: workers and self-employed people

    • 10 March 2014
    • Guidance

  2. HMRC's departmental spend over £25,000: May 2011

    • 10 March 2014
    • Transparency data

See all our publications

Our statistics

  1. Numbers of taxpayers and registered traders

    • 11 March 2014
    • Statistics

  2. Minor tax expenditures and structural reliefs

    • 11 March 2014
    • Statistics

See all our statistics

Our management

  • Lin Homer

    Lin Homer

    Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary

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HMRC enquiries

To contact HMRC about your tax or HMRC advice and services please use this link.

Make an FOI request

  1. Read about the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and how to make a request
  2. Check our previous releases to see if we’ve already answered your question
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HMRC FoI Act Team
Room 1C/23
100 Parliament Street
London
SW1A 2BQ

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