Harvey Smith and Rob Hodkinson investigate expatriate compliance reviews
Kate Ramm explains how HMRC’s relationship management approach for large businesses is transforming the way that HMRC work, delivering better tax compliance and a more effective resolution of issues
HMRC should improve tax agents’ compliance by providing more support to those experiencing difficulties and applying sanctions where performance is poor, the National Audit Office report concluded.
Tax professionals have reacted angrily to a National Audit Office report suggesting that tax returns prepared by agents are more likely to understate liabilities than returns filed by taxpayers who do not have an agent, that paying for professional help is ‘not without risk for a taxpayer’, and t
The tax world has changed since 1997. Judith Freedman challenges some of the reasons often given for opposing the introduction of a GAAR
Richard Clarke and Hannah Foulkes examine the effectiveness of recent HMRC initiatives
The ‘tax gap’ increased to £42 billion in 2008/09, according to HMRC’s latest estimate.
HMRC has updated a table setting out what information it will accept over the telephone, after it announced that it would accept telephone claims for remission of tax under extra-statutory concession A19. See www.lexisurl.com/Ql8d7.
The Government was asked whether it would provide ‘the same level of funding for advertising to highlight tax evasion as is spent on highlighting benefit fraud’.
Revenue & Customs Brief 36/10 explains the factsheets that HMRC issues during a compliance check.
See www.lexisurl.com/p9uEA.