{"id":1299,"date":"2026-07-20T06:01:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2026-07-20T06:01:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:01:28","slug":"united-kingdom-sanctions-enforcement-statistics-for-hmrc-in-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/07\/20\/united-kingdom-sanctions-enforcement-statistics-for-hmrc-in-2025-26\/","title":{"rendered":"United Kingdom &#8211; sanctions enforcement statistics for HMRC in  2025\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UK&#8217;s HMRC has released enforcement statistics for 2025 and the first part of 2026 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/hmrc-annual-report-and-accounts-2025-to-2026-technical-notes\/sanctions-enforcement-technical-note\">a &#8220;Technical Note&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>22 criminal investigations with three charges and two (at the time of the release of the Note) pending trial;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>58 seizures of sanctioned goods<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 compound penalty of \u00a31,160,725.67 (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/07\/08\/united-kingdom-1-1m-penalty-for-exports-to-russia\/\">our previous post<\/a>);<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>29 self-disclosures, with these being resolved as follows:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>18 warning letters;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>7 no further action letters;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 compound penalty;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3 cases remain unresolved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By way of cooperation with the Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation, there were 44 referrals to HMRC in 2025\/2026, with 10 resulting in no further action, 13 relating to already-ongoing investigations; and 21 still under review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s HMRC has released enforcement statistics for 2025 and the first part of 2026 in a &#8220;Technical Note&#8221;: By way of cooperation with the Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation, there were 44 referrals to HMRC in 2025\/2026, with 10 resulting in no further action, 13 relating to already-ongoing investigations; and 21 still under review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,104,2],"tags":[14,18,34,9],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-104","category-general","tag-export-controls","tag-russia","tag-trade-sanctions","tag-united-kingdom"],"authors":[{"term_id":7,"user_id":656,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mhandley","display_name":"Mark Handley","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2023\/09\/handleymark-100x100.jpg","author_category":"","last_name":"Handley","first_name":"Mark","job_title":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html","description":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html\">Read Mark's bio.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1301,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}