HMRC to close 170 tax offices

HMRC wants replace the offices with 13 new regional tax centres, according to the Daily Telegraph. The newspaper said the plan would leave towns and cities across the country without a tax office and was likely to lead to thousands of HMRC's 56,000 staff being made redundant. As a result of the cuts there would be no tax office in south west England west of Bristol, and little or no coverage in East Anglia, according to the report. An HMRC spokesman said: "[Today] we will inform our staff about the future direction of our estate. "We have been clear for some time that this will ...