U.K. companies exporting into the European Union will have to wait for permission from tax authorities before they can move their goods under plans being drawn up by the government.

Unite says customs paperwork causing delays – despite government’s denial Brexit to blame.

Top business body calls for ‘urgent action’ to ease trading barriers.

The U.K. government just presented a 206-page manual for how the country will trade with the European Union on Jan. 1, when Britain’s exit from the 27-nation bloc becomes official 4 1/2 years after the nation voted to leave.

British traders are falling foul of a new information technology system policing goods crossing the English Channel, as companies grapple with a fresh wave of post-Brexit red tape.

"Very desperate or very stupid, or both," wrote one person in response.

Inflation is rising, worker shortages are grinding us down and consumers are hurting, but No.10 is introducing measures which will make the situation worse

Queues of lorries backed up waiting to be processed at the Port of Dover have become so long the huge tailbacks can be seen on images taken from space.

TRADERS hoping to pass goods through the UK’s busiest port have been hit by further trouble after the Government's post-Brexit IT system went down.

U.K. traders are falling foul of a new IT system policing goods crossing the English Channel, as companies grapple with a fresh wave of post-Brexit red tape.

HMRC document shows firms in Great Britain will be obliged to complete three types of electronic paperwork.

Two years since Britain left the EU, Brexit is still very much at the top of the news agenda with lorry queues lengthening at Dover as exporting firms struggle with red tape.

A 23-mile stretch of the M20 is closed amid HMRC technical problems and a ferry shortage.

Lorries will need permission from new HMRC computer system before heading for Dover.

Glitches in IT systems designed to manage the movement of goods from the EU to the UK are holding up shipments.

Huge 15km queues piling up at the Port of Dover have been blamed ‘entirely’ on extra controls brought in after Brexit.

Traffic hell getting to the county's ports has been exacerbated after it emerged a major post-Brexit customs system crashed - adding extra time for lorries heading to the Continent.

“The whole thing is stupid and pointless," one business owner at London's Borough Market has said.

The government is being urged to quickly get a grip of teething problems with a new post-Brexit IT system that has left lorries unable to get into the UK.

Lorries are continuing to face tailbacks at Dover, which have been 'sparked by new Brexit checks'.

Some lorries bringing goods from the EU to the UK have been stuck at the border for four days, as logistics bosses blamed disruption on “terrible” new Brexit red tape.

Huge queues are "the new normal" rather than "teething problems", Unite said.

The government agency said there had been a problem with some cameras after a 17k queue formed on the M20.

The Unite union says the queues of lorries outside the town of Dover are a “direct consequence” of the introduction of additional border procedures at the beginning of the year.

"Companies are already having trouble with the system,” one reporter said. / A new post-Brexit IT system is creating huge lorry queues in the EU as vehicles are trying to bring various goods to the UK.

Sky News sees figures showing that the so-called Dover TAP has been deployed on 18 of the first 32 days of the year, with hauliers expressing concern that new red tape is to blame.

Minister expected to frame move as a use of UK’s independent powers despite industry reports of unreadiness.

Amid mounting concerns that the Goods Vehicle Movement Service (GVMS) is not yet fit for purpose, the UK government will likely be forced to choose “flow or regulations” when the grace period for new customs regulations comes to an end on 31 December.

According to the boss of Europe’s largest haulage trade body, the UK is looking at a ‘nightmare scenario’ that will lead to ‘weeks, if not months’ of shortages.

Food body warns of ‘post-Brexit perception problem’ over recurring traffic gridlock.

Grassroots charities having trouble exporting aid due to new red tape.

Intense traffic congestion around Dover is partly down to “Brexit scenarios”, according to the head of the British Ports Association.

‘It’s entirely Brexit,’ says haulier who has been caught up in 15km queues.

Guide makes mockery of Boris Johnson’s 2020 claim that UK and EU would ‘do even more business’.