Using the 188体育 website
Finding the guidance you need, including manuals and forms, registering for email alerts, giving feedback and accessing archives.
The purpose of HMRC guidance on 188体育 is to give people the information they need so that they can get their tax right.
We use a variety of formats and guidance types on 188体育 depending on the purpose, type, volume and complexity of the information.
At the top of every page on 188体育 you will find a search box icon and a 鈥楳enu鈥� dropdown. You can use these - or HMRC鈥檚 organisation page聽- to help you find what you are looking for.
HMRC manuals contain technical guidance for HMRC staff and tax professionals. Their primary purpose is to explain HMRC鈥檚 interpretation of relevant legislation, which is the basis on which the department makes decisions.
HMRC forms and associated guides, notes, helpsheets and supplementary pages.
HMRC鈥檚 organisation page聽features numerous news stories, latest updates and other useful information. The 鈥楧ocuments鈥� section includes a number of links to help you see all:
You can refine 188体育 search results by clicking on the 鈥楩ilter and sort鈥� link at the top of your results.
Many guidance pages on 188体育 allow you to sign up to email alerts. This means you鈥檒l be notified when the page is updated.
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- a topic, select 鈥楪et emails for this topic鈥�
- an organisation, select 鈥楪et emails鈥� such as on the HMRC organisation page
Follow the instructions to manage your email subscription.
All pages on 188体育 enable you to give feedback.
Giving feedback anonymously helps HMRC improve our content.
At the bottom of every page you will see the question 鈥業s this page useful?鈥�. Click 鈥榊es鈥� or 鈥楴o鈥� to tell us what you think. You can also select the 鈥楻eport a problem with this page鈥� link to leave a feedback comment for that particular page.
HMRC review all of the anonymous feedback comments received on our manuals and over 50% of them result in improvements being made to the guidance.
If you would prefer to submit feedback about content and receive a response, you can use the 188体育 contact form.
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The National Archives maintain the which captures copies of HMRC guidance at regular intervals.
You can if you need to see previous versions of HMRC guidance that were held on the websites:
- www.gov.uk
- www.hmrc.gov.uk
- www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk