‘The spotlight will again fall on [Dave Hartnett] on 14 June when Sir Andrew Park ... is due to issue a report to the National Audit Office on the “reasonableness” of five of the largest recent settlements between the tax department and big business. UK Uncut, a grass roots pressure group ...
A planned consultation on options for integrating the operation of income tax and NICs will not be held until after the summer, the government has announced.
Six new HMRC taskforces – specialist teams that undertake ‘intensive bursts of activity’ in high risk trade sectors and locations – are expected to recover tax of more than £23m, the department announced.
HMRC has launched a ‘technical consultation’ on changes to the VAT invoice rules. EU Council Directive 2010/45/EU requires member states to change national legislation by 1 January 2013. Its aim is to reduce the administrative burdens imposed on EU businesses, HMRC said.
More than half of taxpayers do not know how much income tax and NICs they pay in a year, HM Treasury said as it announced the launch of a new tax calculator on Monday.
Mark Kennedy and Kimberley MacDonald assess the resulting practical issues. Tim Branston (below) provides a view from business.
The Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) service is now available to ‘all customers nationwide’, HMRC announced yesterday.
Work on tax agent engagement and standards is being ‘slowed down’ to acknowledge concerns expressed by agents and their representative bodies, HMRC said in the latest issue of Working Together.
HMRC has updated three of the toolkits designed to help reduce common errors in the completion of tax returns:
The union representing senior HMRC staff said last week's report by the Public Accounts Committee should have 'gone further' and highlighted the need to invest in HMRC in order to collect more tax.