Richard Clarke and Jennifer Knowlson provide an update on discovery assessments including the impact of Lansdowne
HMRC and the Liechtenstein Government have signed a second joint declaration concerning HMRC’s five-year Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility (LDF) for people who have undeclared UK tax liabilities.
The question whether legal professional privilege should be extended to tax advisers who are not lawyers looks likely to become one that will have to be considered by Parliament, said the ICAEW’s Chief Executive Michael Izza.
Adam Craggs and Jonathan Wood look at the Australian and US mediation experiences, and ask if they offer any lessons for the UK
Richard Clarke and Hannah Foulkes examine the effectiveness of recent HMRC initiatives
Revenue & Customs Brief 36/10 explains the factsheets that HMRC issues during a compliance check.
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HMRC has admitted that guidance setting out when it will consider a person’s domicile, and decide whether to make a determination of inheritance tax based on that domicile, has not been working well for HMRC or taxpayers.
A new online learning module is intended to raise awareness of HMRC’s power (contained in FA 2009 s 94) to publish the names and other details of people who are penalised for deliberately evading more than £25,000 of tax and who do not fully cooperate with a tax investigation.
HMRC is to launch six additional toolkits in the next two months, setting out how agents can reduce the likelihood of mistakes occurring in the preparation of clients’ tax returns.
Tax advisers expressed surprise that only 1,500 medical professionals made disclosures under HMRC’s Tax Health Plan (THP) by the 30 June deadline. HMRC told Tax Journal that there were over 2,000 ‘notifiers’ and the THP had yielded around £9 million.