Email form Online Selling Compliance Team
We receive an email as follow, anyone else also receive this emai? and how to do?
Dear Client,
Please read and response the opening enquires from HMRC.
Here, we would like to kindly remind you that please response to HMRC’s VAT investigation as soon as possible and provide the required documents on time.
Please response to HMRC and reply to us before the 31st Jan 2019. If they do not receive your reply with required information, your accounts will be removed from the online selling marketplace by the JSL notice from HMRC, and HMRC will be conducting an assessment based on the information they already have on your business, which may result in more tax being paid.
If you have any questions about the online selling compliance check from HMRC, please do not hesitate to contact our customer service. We are here to help and keep your business running.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation
Best Regards,
J&P Accountants
0 replies
Seller_EJIX7rqDNQJi2
This sounds like a spam/advert for an accounting company.
You don’t need to take any actions based on it.
Seller_Wqg5EgqxuOwDD
This is spam. HMRC do not contact anyone through any third party, also HMRC never correspond via email. The only emails you get are to say you have a message in their secure portal which you’d need to log into via HMRC’s website with your registered with HMRC log on info to see. Therefore if there are no messages in your HMRC gateway account, or if you do not have an HMRC account, you know it is bogus.
Seller_qZO3ZCjoBXEeL
It’s not even written in proper English…
That’s clearly been written by a person with English as a second language.
Pretty sure that will end up in a phishing scam.
Seller_X9t7K6G38KZ4F
There is also one about NI contributions as well
avoid! any doubts speak to HRMC
Seller_UDRYuRZ4F66Ja
J&P Accountants have always looked after the accounts for a massive percentage of the Chinese VAT evading sellers on Amazon.
Seller_QlN0mmCAFPtjZ
These guys are doing a pretty poor job , with trying to make their scam look legitimate .
Clearly you have no prior dealings with a firm by the name of J&P Accountants , or do you ?
If you do not , and I suspect that is the case , why in the World would HMRC send them any notification about you .
This is not just spam , but is potentially a scam too . Stay away from even corresponding with them . Block and delete them
Seller_AaTSN0AimLp9O
Deal with it as advised. It is unlikely to be a scam.
J&P are your representatives here in the UK!
Do you not remember asking them to create your VAT number for you!! 
