Closure blow for Inverness tax office

Tax office workers in Inverness have been told that the office will shut in 2017-18 as part of a government project designed to cut hundreds of millions of pounds.

HMRC will close the River House facility along with 17 of its 18 offices in Scotland, moving "most" of the workforce into two regional offices.

The organisation expects between 2,300 and 2,600 full-time equivalent employees to work in the Edinburgh regional centre and between 3,400 and 3,700 full-time equivalent employees to work in the Glasgow centre.

Lin Homer, HMRC’s chief executive, said: "Where offices are a long way from a regional centre and it is not possible for employees to move to work in one, HMRC will do everything it reasonably can to help them to find new roles, either elsewhere in the civil service, or outside, in order to minimise redundancies."

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