Easter Downtime Affecting HMRC's Online Services

05 April 2012

HMRC’s online services will be affected by scheduled upgrades during the next two weeks.

The department announced on 30 March that online services would ‘start to close from 21.00 on Thursday 5 April’ and ‘remain closed until Wednesday 11 April’.

The Service Availability page of HMRC’s website provides further details on timings and individual services, including the effect on:

• PAYE between today and 13 April;
• the construction industry scheme, corporation tax, online agent authorisation, pension schemes, self assessment, shared workspace and stamp taxes between 5 and 11 April;
• EU VAT refunds and VAT online between 8 and 11 April.