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Major HMRC restructure sees tax office closures to create 13 regional hubs

HMRC is set to announce plans later today which will see HMRC close its current 170 tax offices across the country in favour of 13 new regional HMRC hubs, in a major restructuring move designed to reduce its costs significantly and have a major impact on the 60,000 staff at local offices, reports Pat Sweet

All staff are due to be briefed on the changes at meetings this morning. At the end of September HMRC’s chief people officer William Hague said the ‘overwhelming majority’ of employees will be moved to the regional offices as smaller units are closed, with plans for a series of more limited ‘transitional sites’ to allow some staff to continue to work locally.

The move is part of HMRC’s Building our Future programme, and will see staff brought together in large regional centres, equipped with a digital infrastructure, a process which could take up to 10 years to complete.  Employees are to be told that HMRC will seek to ‘minimise redundancies wherever possible’, and will expect some staff to travel or change roles.

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