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HM Revenue and Customs

HMRC is responsible for collecting the bulk of tax revenue as well as paying tax credits and child benefit, and strengthening the UK's frontiers. They manage:

• Income, Corporation, Capital Gains, Inheritance, Insurance Premium, Stamp, Land and Petroleum Revenue Taxes;
• Environmental taxes: climate change and aggregates levy and landfill tax;
• VAT;
• Customs Duties and frontier protection;
• Excise Duties;
• National Insurance;
• Tax Credits;
• Child Benefit and the Child Trust Fund;
• Enforcement of the National Minimum Wage;
• Recovery of Student Loan repayments

Contacts

• Executive Chairman: Michael Clasper
• Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary: Lesley Strathie
• Permanent Secretary for Tax: Dave Hartnett
• Address: 100 Parliament Street, London SW1A 2BQ
• Website: www.hmrc.gov.uk [External website]
• Telephone: 020 7438 6622

Executive Agencies

Valuation Office

The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) is an executive agency of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) with 85 offices spread throughout England, Wales and Scotland employing around 4,300 people. The VOA provides a range of statutory and non-statutory property valuation services to the public sector in England, Wales and Scotland, including the compilation and maintenance of the business rating and council tax valuation lists for England and Wales.

• Chief Executive: Andrew Hudson
• Parent: HM Revenue & Customs
• Responsible Minister: Financial Secretary (The Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP)
• Address: New Court, Carey Street, London, WC2A 2JE
• Website: http://www.voa.gov.uk/ [External website]
• Telephone: 020 7506 1801
• Fax: 020 7506 1998
• Email: customerservices@voa.gsi.gov.uk