Just tried it in order to check - absolutely no change since last time I used it.
A couple of years or so ago, I elected for 2FA using an authenticator app. And that is what lets me in (account and password already having been entered as always).
I'm not sure what you mean by no change since last time, my access has certainly been changed since last year when i had no problem.
They offer two other authentification routes, one seemingly for business and the other through the Post Office which is even more bonkers. To get into it requires them to phone me with an access code to verfy my phone number. No problem I thought, others do that too.
But it's unusable since all I get when it rings is an electronic American female voice gabbling an unintelligible number at an impossibly fast pace to either write or type it. The first two attempts I had no chance, but at the third I managed to hear this, typed verbally so you'll know what I heard:
Five seventy nine three hundred two thousand forty two
That of course makes no sense in English, but nonetheless I entered it in the various ways possible only for it to get rejected each time.
So I've concluded that HMRC has taken leave of its senses.
I have a 12 character alpha-numeric User ID.
I have a 10 character UTR. (Unique Tax Reference)
I have an 11 character alpha-numeric password with HMRC.
All three are unique to me, but no, they say those are no longer enough, so they demand I answer the impossible questions in addition.
Why the one on the Northern Ireland driving licence that 97% of us don't have? They tell me that cannot access the DVLA to check UK ones, apparently they are getting a dose of their own medicine from that other government department not letting them in.
Honestly one couldn't make up a situation as insane as this.
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