‘The spotlight will again fall on [Dave Hartnett] on 14 June when Sir Andrew Park ... is due to issue a report to the National Audit Office on the “reasonableness” of five of the largest recent settlements between the tax department and big business. UK Uncut, a grass roots pressure group ...
Six new HMRC taskforces – specialist teams that undertake ‘intensive bursts of activity’ in high risk trade sectors and locations – are expected to recover tax of more than £23m, the department announced.
The Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) service is now available to ‘all customers nationwide’, HMRC announced yesterday.
Jim Ferguson, Head of the Review of HMRC’s Powers, wants to reassure agents about the new dishonest tax agents legislation.
A change to the UK-Swiss tax agreement signed last October provides for an increase in the maximum rate of the one-off payment from 34% to 41%.
SMEs can now apply online to use the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) facility, HMRC announced.
Applicants can expect to hear back from HMRC ‘within 30 days’. Taxpayers are invited to call HMRC instead if there are ‘exceptional circumstances which prevent you from applying online’.
HMRC will be forced to defend itself in court against an allegation that it gave a ‘sweetheart tax deal’ to Goldman Sachs, The Guardian reported today.
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 The draft guidance was well received, HMRC said, with ‘very few comments on the actual material’.
A plumber was jailed for 12 months yesterday for evading £91,000 of income tax and NICs during 10 years of trading.
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.