A Cardiff flat owner has received thousands of letters from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in a matter of months after more than 11,000 overseas Chinese companies used his address to register for VAT. Dylan Davies, an estate agent from Ceredigion, said he had been bombarded with over 6,000 letters to his apartment - which he doesn't reside in all the time - since September last year.
Tax bosses have said they found "no evidence of any fraud" during the bizarre situation. "Back in September, I was there one day and opened the letterbox and all these brown envelopes fell out. I counted about 580 that one time," Mr Davies, 65, told WalesOnline. He said when he did not get a response from HMRC, he resorted to contacting Welsh BBC consumer show X-Ray, which ran the story.
"That woke up everybody then. All of a sudden I heard from HMRC," he said. "By that time [the end of 2022], I think I had about 3000 letters. Now I've had over 6,000 letters...I had a letter from HMRC in March that they would be looking into it. They apologised...they made sure that no more post would arrive at my address - but they're still arriving. I had 20 there last week."
