Beware surge in tax rebate scams
By Edie Bourne
Beware of scammers! That’s the New Year message from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to all those doctor self-assessment taxpayers still completing their returns for the 31 January 2021 deadline.
Fraudsters are using calls, emails or texts to contact customers. In the last year, tax officials responded to over 846,000 referrals of suspicious contact and reported over 15,500 malicious web pages to internet service providers to be taken down. Almost 500,000 of the referrals offered bogus tax rebates.