HMRC’s ‘Tax Return Initiative’, aimed at taxpayers who have outstanding self assessment returns for 2009/10 or earlier, has prompted tax professionals to repeat calls for a general disclosure facility open to all taxpayers.
HMRC expects to recover £30m from compliance activity by new taskforces tackling evasion among Scottish pubs and nightclubs; hair and beauty businesses in Northern Ireland; the motor trade in South Wales, the South West, Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and the North East; and restaurants in South Wale
HMRC proposes to add a ‘taxpayer responsibilities’ test to extra-statutory concession A19 that would require taxpayers to have ‘a certain basic level of knowledge’ about their tax affairs.
Chartered accountants at odds over ICAEW chief's missive
A millionaire property developer who failed to disclose a Swiss bank account to HMRC during a civil enquiry pleaded guilty to cheating the public revenue, in the first prosecution based on data stolen by a former HSBC employee and obtained by HMRC under the terms of a tax treaty with France.
HMRC needs a ‘better understanding’ of the costs and benefits of interventions such as debt campaigns and initiatives to drive down error and fraud in tax credits, according to the Head of the National Audit Office.
Angela Savin reviews the High Court decision to grant UK Uncut permission to challenge HMRC's settlement with Goldman Sachs.
‘More than 4,000 companies are currently under investigation by the tax authorities, senior officials at Revenue & Customs revealed as they faced hours of hostile questioning by MPs over corporate tax avoidance.
New PAYE schemes set up after November 2012, and existing employers who become clients of pilot software providers, bureaux or agents, will be able to join the RTI pilot from November 2012, HMRC announced.
The Commons Public Accounts Committee’s review of HMRC will be extended to examine ‘loopholes’ featured in a series of articles published in The Times, which declared in a leading article last Thursday that tax avoidance was ‘a form of cheating’ and ‘a way of playing the system to gain r