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
HMRC have published details of the types of data they hold, and a summary of their approach to transparency, with a view to meeting commitments made in an updated Business Plan.
‘Thousands of British clients of HSBC who stashed money in Switzerland are to have their financial affairs probed by the taxman … HMRC has obtained the names and account details of 7,000 HSBC customers from a whistleblower …
HMRC have agreed to delay the start of their ‘single compliance process’ pilot for enquiries across a range of taxes, in order to allow the department to produce detailed guidance for agents, the ICAEW Tax Faculty said.
Jason Collins asks whether the Tribunal in Parissis came to the right conclusion on when a document is within a person’s ‘power’