Updated on 6 April 2024
Tax checks and disputes
These pages look at how to resolve disputes with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), the tax penalty system and how to complain to HMRC if you feel treated unfairly.
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Tax checks and disputes
The following pages provide more information on the following topics:
- Tax checks and enquiries: a guide to the process and your rights if you are subject to an enquiry or compliance check by HMRC.
- Taxpayer information notice.
- Third party information notice.
- HMRC visits.
- Tax penalties and interest: a guide to the different kinds of penalties that HMRC can impose.
- Appealing a tax decision: a guide to the stages of resolving disputes with HMRC. This guide will help you if you have a right of appeal against an HMRC decision on a direct tax issue. We also cover HMRC’s internal review process and appealing to a tax tribunal.
- Alternative dispute resolution: you may find this helpful if you are subject to an enquiry by HMRC and have not been able to bring this successfully to an end.
- Complaining to HMRC: you may find this guide helpful if you are not happy with the way HMRC are dealing with you.
