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Planned System Maintenance - Limited Service

Sunderland City Council will be carrying out planned system maintenance from 12 noon on Friday 5th June until 7am on Tuesday 9th June. During this period, we will only be able to respond to urgent enquiries. If your enquiry is not urgent, please contact us before or after these times when full services will be available. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your understanding.

Tax conditionality check

Tax Conditionality - All Drivers and Private Hire Operators

From 4 April 2022 all individuals will need to complete a tax check when applying to renew licenses in England and Wales.  If a tax check is not completed, the licensing authority will be unable to consider your application to renew your licence and your current licence will expire.

Please read the following information that may assist you:

·         Tax check factsheet

·         Guidance for licence applicants

·         Communications toolkit

·         HMRC Consultation on the draft regulations (closes 18 November)

·         Help and support for the HMRC business tax account​

·         HMRC's business tax account

·         Tax check code portal