Aaronson found that among tax representative bodies there was 'unanimous disapproval, indeed distaste, for egregious tax avoidance schemes'.
HMRC is one of ten employers engaged in the department’s Real Time Information pilot launched yesterday. All employers and pension providers will be required by October 2013 to provide PAYE information during the year.
HMRC has published its guidance on the litigation and settlement strategy relaunched last July. The draft guidance was well received, HMRC said, with ‘very few comments on the actual material’.
HMRC has updated its list of concessions previously operated by the Inland Revenue.
Issue 47 of HMRC’s Working Together was published on 28 March and includes articles on:
HMRC’s online services will be affected by scheduled upgrades during the next two weeks. Employers using PAYE online later today may find that acknowledgements are delayed.
Any bank told that HMRC considers it has not complied with the Code of Practice on Taxation for Banks will be expected to acknowledge HMRC’s view in any public pronouncements that the bank makes on its operation of the code, according to a new ‘
HMRC accepts that most owners of SMEs want to get their tax right and that the tone of HMRC’s communications with SMEs ‘needs to reflect this better’, the department said in a Budget day note setting out proposed changes to the tax legislation for smaller businesses and how HMRC intends to delive
Revenue & Customs Brief 07/12 sets out changes to Intrastat declaration procedures for businesses with intra-EU trade in excess of £600,000 pa for arrivals (‘EU imports’) and/or £250,000 pa for dispatches (‘EU exports’).
The controversial deal to tackle tax evasion by UK residents holding secret accounts in Switzerland has been revised. A protocol signed in Brussels yesterday will modify the deal so it is compatible with existing EU laws on evasion, the Financial Times reported.