HMRC snoopers want to spy on your private life under chilling Labour power grab

The article argues that proposed changes to HMRC’s information-gathering powers could allow it to request digital records, including AI chatbot histories, from taxpayers and third parties. It presents this as a threat to privacy and civil liberties, while noting that HMRC says the changes are intended to update its existing powers for information stored digitally.

It also cites HMRC’s use of property photographs ahead of a planned mansion tax, existing powers to recover unpaid tax from bank accounts, and proposals for automatic collection of some VAT and PAYE debts. The article says HMRC is developing systems to monitor online tax discussions; it frames these measures as growing state surveillance, though its claims about how chatbot records would be examined are presented as the author’s argument.