When Dave Hartnett, HMRC’s Permanent Secretary for Tax, told the BBC’s Paul Lewis that he was not sure that he saw a need to apologise, he was responding to an invitation to ‘apologise to the six
The Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Taxation Group accused the UK’s senior tax official, Dave Hartnett, of arrogance after Hartnett claimed in a radio interview broadcast on 11 September that there was no need to apologise over the scale of PAYE over and underpayments.
HMRC will not pursue cases where the amount owed is less than £300, which account for 40% of all underpayments, David Gauke told MPs.
Employers who are using the Employer CD-ROM to help run their payroll systems ‘must update it now’ to ensure it has the most up-to-date guidance and calculators, HMRC announced.
HMRC insisted that over and underpayments would always be a feature of the PAYE system after it emerged that between four and ten million people could be in line for a repayment, while at least 1.4 million face demands for unpaid tax.
The Government’s alternative proposals to restrict pensions tax relief are an improvement on the previous administration’s rules but there are still issues to be resolved to make them workable, said the CIOT.
The regional national insurance contributions holiday for new businesses came into effect on 6 September.
HMRC has published the notes accompanying the ‘PAYE tax calculations’ sent to 45,000 taxpayers.
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HMRC has defended the PAYE system after press reports indicated that between four and ten million people could be in line for a repayment, while at least 1.4 million face demands for unpaid tax.