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Change or remove your tax agent's authorisation

Find out how to change and remove authorisation from an agent acting on your behalf.

You must not give your sign in credentials to your agent or anyone else.

If you바카라 사이트™re an agent, you must not use your client바카라 사이트™s credentials to sign into any account. Find out how to register and get authorised as a tax agent to deal with HMRC.

If you바카라 사이트™re a registered tax agent, you can change or remove your authorisations.

If a tax agent acts on your behalf, you can remove their authorisation if you no longer want them to manage your tax affairs.

You may want to remove a tax agent바카라 사이트™s authorisation if:

  • you change tax agents
  • your current tax agent retires or has stopped operating
  • you don바카라 사이트™t need a tax agent to represent you any more

If you want to change the tax agent you have authorised, you must submit a new authorisation request. Any new authority received will replace any existing authority.

How to remove agent authorisation online

You can remove agent authorisation online using your business tax account or your personal tax account.

To remove an agent바카라 사이트™s authorisation, you must sign in using the 바카라 사이트 Gateway user ID that you use for the specific tax.

How you remove a tax agent is different depending on the tax. The method you use depends on whether you originally authorised your agent using:

  • a link that they sent to you to authorise them 바카라 사이트” this is known as the digital handshake
  • your business tax account
  • your personal tax account

For taxes that use the digital handshake

The digital handshake is used to authorise agents for:

  • Making Tax Digital for VAT
  • Making Tax Digital for Income Tax
  • Plastic Packaging Tax
  • Capital Gains Tax on UK Property
  • managing a trust or estate

To remove agent authorisation for these services:

  1. Sign into your business tax account.

  2. Go to 바카라 사이트˜Manage account바카라 사이트™ at the top of the page.

  3. Select 바카라 사이트˜View agent account history or remove a tax agent바카라 사이트™.

  4. Select 바카라 사이트˜Who can deal with HMRC for you바카라 사이트™.

  5. Select 바카라 사이트˜Remove authorisation바카라 사이트™.

  6. Select 바카라 사이트˜Yes바카라 사이트™ to confirm you wish to remove the agent.

  7. Select 바카라 사이트˜Continue바카라 사이트™.

  8. If you want to remove an agent from more than one tax service you can then select 바카라 사이트˜View who can deal with HMRC for you바카라 사이트™.

If you are removing an agent for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax or Making Tax Digital for VAT, you need to make sure you have also removed the agent from Self Assessment and VAT.

You can do this by selecting 바카라 사이트˜check or remove active agent authorisation for Self Assessment바카라 사이트™ on the confirmation screen when you have removed an agent.

For all other taxes

You can also use your business tax account to remove an agent for:

  • Corporation Tax
  • Gambling Tax
  • Machine Games Duty
  • Notification of Vehicle Arrivals
  • PAYE for employers and the Construction Industry Scheme
  • Self Assessment
  • VAT
  • VAT EC Sales List and Reverse Charge Sales List
  • VAT EU Refunds
  • VAT Mini One Stop Shop

To remove agent authorisation for these services:

  1. Sign into your business tax account.

  2. Go to 바카라 사이트˜Manage account바카라 사이트™ at the top of the page.

  3. Under tax agents, select on 바카라 사이트˜Add, view or change tax agents바카라 사이트™.

  4. Select the tax you want to remove the agent from.

  5. Select 바카라 사이트˜manage agents바카라 사이트™.

  6. Select 바카라 사이트˜remove바카라 사이트™.

  7. Then select 바카라 사이트˜remove agent바카라 사이트™.

  8. If you want to remove an agent from more than one tax service you can then select 바카라 사이트˜Return to list of taxes and schemes바카라 사이트™.

If you are removing an agent for Self Assessment or VAT, you need to make sure you have also removed the agent from Making Tax Digital for Income Tax and Making Tax Digital for VAT.

If you are removing an agent for VAT or employer PAYE and want to stop them dealing with HMRC on your behalf in writing or over the phone, you must also:

  • change or remove their authorisations by post
  • contact HMRC by phone

You will need to provide your VAT number or your personal scheme reference number for employer PAYE.

Change or remove authorisations by post

If you want to remove your agent바카라 사이트™s authorisation, or change how much they can do on your behalf, you need to write to:

Central Agent Authorisation Team
National Insurance Contributions and Employer Office
HMRC
BX9 1AN
United Kingdom

What to include

You바카라 사이트™ll need to tell us as much information as you can to identify yourself and your agent. You must include:

  • your full name
  • the name and address of the agent you want to remove
  • their agent code or reference number if you know it
  • your company or partnership바카라 사이트™s Unique Taxpayer Reference (UTR)
  • the tax reference for each service you바카라 사이트™re changing

The tax reference number you need for each service is:

  • Self Assessment 바카라 사이트• your personal UTR
  • employer PAYE 바카라 사이트• your employer scheme reference number
  • VAT 바카라 사이트• your VAT number
  • Income Tax 바카라 사이트• your National Insurance number
  • Corporation Tax 바카라 사이트• your company바카라 사이트™s UTR

You should tell us each tax service you want the agent to be removed from.

If you do not know which tax services the agent has been authorised for, you must provide us with your tax reference numbers and identifiers. We will then remove any tax service you have authorised your agent for that are directly connected to these reference numbers.

Updates to this page

Published 7 July 2021
Last updated 26 April 2024 show all updates
  1. Information about removing agent authorisation online using a personal tax account has been added.

  2. Information about changing the tax agent you have authorised has been updated.

  3. First published.

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