Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is closing down its six East Midlands offices and creating one regional centre in Nottingham by 2021.
The moves come as HMRC try to modernise its operations in the UK in a bid to save £100 million by 2023.
Expensive, outdated offices
Lin Homer, HMRC’s Chief Executive, says: “HMRC has too many, expensive, isolated and outdated offices. This makes it difficult for us to collaborate, modernise our ways of working and make the changes we need to transform our service to customers.
“The new regional centre in Nottingham will bring our staff together in a more modern and cost-effective building in an area with lower rent.”
She adds that the new building will create high-quality skilled jobs in Nottingham.
HMRC has more than 2,000 people working in a city centre office at Castle Meadow business park.
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Around 2,500 people in total will work at the Nottingham centre
The modernisation of HMRC is designed to save more than £100 million by 2023
More than 80 per cent of people now fill their tax returns in online
