'It’s awful that people can be 誘惑するd into using these websites': It's NOT 公式の／役人 - online sting that 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s up to £1,000 for service you can get FREE

By Jeff Prestridge, 財政上の Mail on Sunday

Updated: 22:04 BST, 7 December 2013

専門家s are 警告 taxpayers to 避ける websites that 約束 to 過程 for a hefty 料金 your self-査定／評価 税金 return ahead of the January 31 最終期限.

Although the websites are not 違法な, they 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 料金s of up to £1,000 for a service that is 解放する／自由な if you とじ込み／提出する your 税金 return through the 公式の／役人 歳入 & Customs website.

The 歳入 says it is 極端に 関心d about such online とじ込み／提出するing services but it is 権力のない to 行為／法令／行動する unless they use its logo ? though some 場所／位置s are designed to look like the 歳入’s, using the same colours and 重要な words such as ‘gateway.’

警告: 税金 専門家 Anita Montieth says no one should use 非，不，無-公式の／役人 websites

Anita Montieth, 税金 経営者／支配人 at the 学校／設ける of 借り切る／憲章d Accountants (England and むちの跡s), says: ‘It’s awful that people can be 誘惑するd into using these websites. They get you to do all the work and then 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 you a 料金.

‘The idea of using such a service when you don’t get to see anyone or know who you are 取引，協定ing with is preposterous. No one should use them.’

What is making the 状況／情勢 worse is that the websites are 支払う／賃金ing search engines to 押し進める their services to the 長，率いる of the 列. Last week a search on Google for ‘税金 return submission’ returned three 料金-非難する websites before the 歳入’s. Google says it is aware of the 問題／発行する and does label these websites as paid-for adverts, but 辞退するs to say how much it 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s.

Unfortunately, this online 混乱 is not 限定するd to self-査定／評価 税金 returns. There are also 類似の websites to 新たにする パスポートs and 運動ing licences and 得る the 解放する／自由な European Health 保険 Card.

Again, the 場所／位置s are not 違法な, with most 明言する／公表するing they are not ‘公式の／役人’. But some 押し進める the 境界s. One パスポート website 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s £72.50 for the 再開 of an adult パスポート ? 正確に／まさに the same as it costs for a 再開 at HM パスポート Office. But that’s just the website’s 料金, so you 結局最後にはーなる 支払う／賃金ing 二塁打 the price.

A 主要な 会社／堅い operating in this murky world is Who4, 登録（する）d at offices in Thorpe Waterville, Northamptonshire. It 申し込む／申し出s an online 施設 to 新たにする パスポートs ? パスポート.uk.com ? that costs up to £99.50, 同様に as a 税金 return 過程ing service.

Europhealth 限られた／立憲的な, a company 登録（する）d at the same office and with the same directors as those at Who4, has a 料金-非難する online service 申し込む／申し出ing a European Health 保険 Card card up to £29.

Who4’s online 税金 return service ? taxreturngateway.com ? 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s 料金s of up to £1,000. One person who used it thinking it was the 公式の／役人 歳入 & Customs website told The Mail on Sunday they were asked for £1,000 for とじ込み／提出するing a ‘simple’ self-査定／評価 税金 return.