PRODUCT · HMRC DATA AUTOMATION

Your HMRC data. Retrieved, normalised, audit-ready.

Grant access once on your HMRC (His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs) Government Gateway account, and BorderAudit retrieves your complete customs declaration history — up to two years of imports, normalised and ready for analysis, typically in under an hour. No downloads. No spreadsheets. No missed data windows.

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One authorisation · no CSV exports · revoke any time
THE MANUAL WAY

Your declaration data exists. Getting it is the problem.

HMRC DATA · RETRIEVED BY HAND

Everything a post-clearance audit needs is already held by HMRC — commodity codes, customs values, duty paid, origin, dates. But retrieved by hand, that history arrives in expiring reports and fragmented exports, and the picture is never quite complete.

▲ 30-day expiry
TRE reports vanish on a timer
HMRC's Trader Records Extract (TRE) reports expire 30 days after they're generated. Miss the window and that slice of your declaration history is gone — you're rebuilding the picture from fragments.
▲ CSV sprawl
Spreadsheets in every direction
Manual retrieval means repeated downloads, hand-stitched CSV exports and version confusion. Every re-pull is another chance for a gap nobody notices until an audit does.
▲ Partial picture
Analysis on incomplete data
Around 32% of the declarations we've audited contain errors. If your data foundation has holes, every check you run on top of it inherits them — and the errors stay invisible.
ONE AUTHORISATION

Grant access once. That’s the setup.

Authorisation is a standard third-party grant on your Government Gateway account — the same mechanism your accountant or customs broker already uses. It takes about two minutes, it’s scoped to customs declaration data only, and you can revoke it instantly whenever you choose.

  • No bespoke integration, no API keys, no development
  • Customs declaration data only — no banking, no tax, no VAT
  • Retrieval starts automatically the moment access is granted
  • Revocable from your Government Gateway account at any time
BorderAudit HMRC Data Automation — grant access once and your declaration data is retrieved automatically
HOW IT WORKS

From authorisation to audit-ready, in six stages.

The whole pipeline runs itself: you authorise once, and your declaration history flows from HMRC into one clean, normalised model — then stays current as new imports clear.

AUTHORISE → SERVE · TYPICALLY <1 HOUR
  1. 01 · AUTHORISE
    Grant access once
    A standard third-party authorisation on your HMRC Government Gateway account — the same mechanism accountants and customs agents use. About two minutes, no development.
  2. 02 · DETECT
    Detected instantly
    BorderAudit spots the new access grant automatically and queues the data request. Nothing for you to configure, upload or export.
  3. 03 · RETRIEVE
    History, in optimised chunks
    Your declaration history is requested in intelligent time-period segments rather than one giant pull — maximising completeness and avoiding HMRC system timeouts.
  4. 04 · NORMALISE
    One clean data model
    CDS (Customs Declaration Service) and MSS (Management Support System) records are reconciled into a single normalised model — line-level, consistent, queryable.
  5. 05 · MONITOR
    Kept current automatically
    As your import activity continues, new data is retrieved and processed continuously — and expiring TRE reports are captured before their 30-day window closes.
  6. 06 · SERVE
    Every module reads from it
    The normalised dataset becomes the foundation the whole platform reads — audit automation, compliance checks, reclaim preparation, dashboards.
WATCH · 43 SECONDS

Grant access once.

One Government Gateway authorisation, and your CDS and MSS declaration data is retrieved, normalised and analysed — watch how the connection works.

THE PIPELINE

Built for completeness, not convenience.

AUTHORISATION
Standard Government Gateway access
The same third-party authorisation mechanism used by accountants, tax agents and customs brokers. Scoped to customs declaration data only — no banking, no tax, no VAT.
RETRIEVAL
Optimised chunk-based retrieval
Rather than requesting everything at once, data is retrieved in intelligent time-period segments — maximising completeness and preventing HMRC system timeouts.
EXPIRY PROTECTION
30-day windows, handled
HMRC TRE reports expire after 30 days. Automated retrieval captures reports as they become available, so an expiring window never costs you data.
MONITORING
Continuous, hands-off updates
New access grants are detected automatically, and new declaration data is retrieved and processed as your import activity continues — no manual re-downloads.
DATA-FIRST
Analytics before you finish onboarding
Retrieval starts the moment access is granted. By the time you reach your dashboard, your declaration history is typically already analysed and waiting.
SECURITY
Encrypted, isolated, revocable
Data encrypted in transit and at rest, processed on secure UK infrastructure in line with UK GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). Never shared with other users, and access is revocable by you at any time.
THE AUTOMATION ADVANTAGE

What used to take weeks now takes an hour.

METRIC
BORDERAUDIT
MANUAL PROCESS
Processing capacity
4.4M declaration lines a day
Line-by-line, by hand
Time to full visibility
Typically under an hour
Days to weeks
Expiring TRE reports
Captured automatically
Gone after 30 days if missed
Ongoing retrieval
Continuous, automatic
Manual re-downloads
Development needed
None — no installs, no CSVs
Spreadsheet wrangling
Coverage
Up to 2 years of history
Whatever got saved in time
THE FOUNDATION

One dataset. Every module reads from it.

HMRC data automation isn’t a feature you use — it’s the layer everything else stands on. Once your declaration history is retrieved and normalised, the rest of the platform works from the same single source of truth.

AUDIT AUTOMATION
Every entry, re-audited

Automated post-clearance analysis runs across the normalised dataset — every declaration line checked, not a sample.

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THE PLATFORM
Customs compliance software

Dashboards, rulesets and case management — the full platform view built on the same data foundation.

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HMRC AUDIT
When the letter arrives

If HMRC opens a compliance check, the audit workflow scopes and samples from data that's already retrieved and normalised.

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AUDIT READINESS
Know your exposure first

Readiness scoring reads the same declaration history — see what an auditor would see, before an auditor does.

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THE NUMBERS

Good data finds what sampling misses.

BorderAudit data · figures to date
4.4m
Declaration lines analysed per day
32%
Of declarations we've audited contain errors
91%
Of submitted claims accepted by HMRC first time
£4.7m
Duty identified & reclaimed to date
Findings

What the audit finds

Complete data is what makes the findings complete. Sampling misses the errors that sit outside the sample, and with 32% of the declarations we've audited containing errors, a full declaration history is the only reliable starting point.

  1. Finding 01

    Entries nobody has reviewed

    Declarations made by agents and carriers in your name that never crossed your desk, now readable line by line.

  2. Finding 02

    The full reclaim window

    Overpayments across the period you can still claim, with the oldest entries flagged before they fall out of reach.

  3. Finding 03

    Inconsistencies across sources

    Data that disagrees between declarations, so errors in the record itself are found rather than inherited.

Anonymised caseIdentified: not yet recovered

£341K identified. £272K still recoverable. £69K already lost to time.

The earlier the data is retrieved, the less of the window is lost. The £69K in this case had already passed the three-year limit.

FAQ

HMRC data access, answered.

The Trader Records Extract (TRE) is a dataset HMRC (His Majesty's Revenue and Customs) makes available containing your customs declaration history — commodity codes, origin countries, duty payments, customs values and declaration dates. It's the raw material of any post-clearance audit, and the dataset BorderAudit retrieves and normalises for you automatically.
BOOK A CALL

See your own data, live.

A 30-minute call with a customs data specialist. We’ll walk through the Government Gateway authorisation, what your declaration history will look like once it’s normalised, and what the platform does with it from there.

⏱30 MIN · VIDEO CALL · UK HOURS
Confidential · no commitment · pick a slot that suits you.

Grant access once. Audit-ready within the hour.

Your complete customs declaration history — retrieved from HMRC, normalised into one model, and kept current automatically. Free to start.

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