The rationale for meetings between HMRC and leading tax advisers in the Big Four accountancy firms has been set out in revised HMRC guidance on its approach to large businesses.
On 31 January HMRC launched its Contractual Disclosure Facility, the latest incarnation of HMRC’s civil investigation of fraud procedure. Phil Berwick reviews some of the practical issues arising from the new process.
HMRC has extended the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) trial for SMEs after a ‘successful launch’ last month in North Wales and North West England. Applications from London, South Wales and South West England will now be accepted.
HMRC will begin writing to more than 50,000 electricians this month, warning them to pay any undisclosed taxes.
MPs who claimed that HM Treasury had a ‘poor’ understanding of some aspects of the Whole of Government Accounts appear to have misinterpreted a key figure.
HMRC will invite people who have failed to complete tax returns and are liable to pay tax at the highest rates to make a voluntary disclosure under a new campaign to be launched during the next year.
HMRC has reminded employers that from April 2012 it will have the power to require an employer to pay a security where there is a ‘serious risk’ of non-payment of PAYE tax or NICs.
The judgment of HMRC officials and the City of London Police was questioned and Harry Redknapp’s barrister was reported to be demanding an investigation after the Tottenham manager and Milan Mandaric, the former Portsmouth chairman, were acquitted of cheating the public revenue.
‘The Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp and Milan Mandaric, the owner of Sheffield Wednesday, have been cleared of evading tax on payments totalling £189,000 that were made by Mandaric into Redknapp's offshore bank account while the two men were at Portsmouth football club.