ARGYLL and Bute Council’s Trading Standards team is warning local business about a VAT letter scam.
The people behind a previous UK data control scam are now sending out debt collection letters asking for payments. These letters have a German address and are headed ‘UK – DATA CONTROL – missing information on your VAT registration number’.
The letter says the sender is looking to update VAT registration numbers. If a business replies to the letter they then receive an invoice asking for £790 per year for three years for inclusion on the UK data control portal.