Unwary taxpayers are inadvertently paying to submit their tax returns after using websites that fork out to be top of Google

Mike Walker lost £400 after googling "hmrc" to file his tax return. He was directed to taxreturngateway.com, and realised too late that it was not the official government site. "It looked very similar, but it was only once I'd gone through the process of filing my return and made a payment of £400 that I realised it wasn't the same," he says.Walker adds: "I thought the official site had changed from previous years to make it cleaner and simpler to use." He tried calling to cancel the payment but gave up after being told he was seventh in the queue. "I immediately emailed demanding that they cancel and refund the £400. So far they haven't responded, and my bank says there's nothing I can do," says the 69-year-old. "I've filed returns about five times before. What hope is there for people doing it for the first time with sites like this at the top of the search?".....Read more here