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.
A tax adviser convicted last month of cheating the public revenue by dishonestly submitting and facilitating tax relief claims has been jailed for 18 months. A confiscation hearing will be held in July.
The trial of Harry Redknapp and Milan Mandaric cost HMRC less than £300,000, a spokesperson told Tax Journal today.
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.
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.