Balanced scales with neat receipts on one side and a single mismatched receipt tipping the balance, symbolising what triggers an HMRC investigation

What Triggers an HMRC Investigation? The Honest Answer Nobody Tells You

Here’s a fact that surprises most people: HMRC opens around 300,000 tax investigations every year, and a fair few of them aren’t triggered by anything you’d ever expect. So, what triggers an HMRC investigation? In short, it’s a mixture of computer algorithms, human tip-offs, random selection, and patterns in your figures that simply don’t add […]