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HMRC’s Customer Compliance Group explained
Amit Puri
Amit Puri (Pure Tax Investigations) outlines the structure, resourcing and recent performance of HMRC’s Customer Compliance Group, including trends in compliance yield and investigation activity.
From check-in to checkmate: Hotelbeds clarifies HMRC’s discretion to allow input tax recovery
Rebekka Sandwell
Robert Waterson
Ed Griffiths
The ruling in
Hotelbeds
underscores the public law duty on HMRC to exercise
their functions fairly, rationally and reasonably, write Robert Waterson and
Ed Griffiths (Eversheds Sutherland).
Fraud: the next ‘failure to prevent’ frontier
Nicholas Gardner
Ruby Hamid
The new fraud offence is a notable expansion of the failure to prevent (FTP)
model creating corporate criminal liability. Ruby Hamid and Nicholas
Gardner (Ashurst) examine actions for companies, and compare the rules
with the existing FTP offences for bribery and tax evasion.
Code of Practice 9 and discovery assessments
Michael Paulin
Michael Paulin (1 Crown Office Row) considers the impact of HMRC’s
broader view of tax fraud in its updated COP 9.
International review for March 2024
Tim Sarson
Tim Sarson (KPMG) reviews the Biden Administration’s FY 2025 tax proposals and the OECD’s new guidance on Amount B of Pillar One.
A look into HMRC’s toolbox during a criminal investigation
Michelle Sloane
Adam Craggs
Adam Craggs and Michelle Sloane (RPC) explore the powers commonly deployed by HMRC during a criminal investigation.
Why we’ve revised COP 9: the view from HMRC
Zoe Gascoyne
Zoe Gascoyne (HMRC) explains the importance of understanding the revised COP 9 and the contractual disclosure facility offer made as part of the process.
The new failure to prevent fraud offence: cheating the public revenue
Dominic Stuttaford
Dominic Stuttaford (Norton Rose Fulbright) considers the scope of a new ‘failure to prevent’ offence and how it differs from the existing corporate criminal offences.
HMRC’s response to the rise of the enabler
Simon York CBE
Simon York (HMRC) explain how HMRC’s Fraud Investigation Service is leading the domestic and international response to tax evasion.
Key issues for in-house tax teams: a checklist
Chris Holmes
Mark Ellis
James Egert
Chris Holmes, Mark Ellis and James Egert (BDO) set out important current corporate and employer tax issues which in-house tax teams should now be addressing.
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