Welsh Man Receives IDR 9.2 Billion Tax Bill from 11,000 Chinese Companies Using His Address

CARDIFF – A man of origin Wales get tens of thousands of tax bills from companies China who have used their address to be registered as a VAT billing address.

Dylan Davies found 580 brown envelopes fall to the floor while checking his mailbox last November. Over the next six months, he collected tax bills for 11,000 Chinese companies.

“This is absolutely horrendous,” said Davies, who received a letter from the British tax authority, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), demanding £500,000 in tax.

HMRC acknowledged the situation did not trigger an alert at the tax office.

“You’d think there would be a system with today’s technology that would notice that right away,” Davies said BBCFriday (7/4/2023).

He has informed the police and HMRC but the brown letters keep coming.

As the letters from the tax collection agency started arriving, he grew concerned that bailiffs would come “hand down a fine” and feared his property would be confiscated given the large amount of money being collected.

He said HRMC only started to take notice of his complaints when he took the matter to the BBC’s Wales X-Ray consumer programme.