Most large business ‘customers’ of HMRC continue to be satisfied with the overall service provided by the department, according to a survey conducted late last year and published last week on HMRC’s website.
HMRC have invited comments by 30 September on draft regulations to be made in the exercise of data-gathering powers contained in Sch 23 to the current Finance Bill.
HMRC have published a briefing paper for tax agents on the trial of a ‘single compliance process’ in 12 UK locations. The trial was set to begin earlier this month but was delayed to allow detailed guidance to be prepared.
The OECD has urged all countries to sign up to a revised international convention designed to help counter cross-border tax evasion.
HMRC are seeking views on the design of a new penalty framework to ‘modernise or align’ more than 300 civil penalties across a range of taxes.
Web robot software will help HMRC to pinpoint tax evaders in a series of new campaigns targeting VAT defaulters, private tutors and e-marketplaces, HMRC have announced. The Connect computer system alerts the department to evasion by matching ‘a vast amount of HMRC and third-party data’.
Jonathan Fisher QC identifies lessons for both prosecutors and defenders from the Eastenders Cash & Carry case concerning search warrants and restraint orders where alcohol diversion fraud was suspected