HMRC has updated its consultation page with a new link to its online discussion forum, where users can share their ideas on the consultation.
A new HMRC factsheet, Compliance checks: Serial tax avoidance – warning notices (CC/FS38), outlines the ‘serial tax avoidance’ legislation introduced by Finance Act 2016, including warning notices HMRC may issue to users of tax avoidance schemes that have been defeated.
HMRC guidance includes:
Hire purchase supplies and bad debt relief
Withdrawal of exemption without notice
Non-compliance with formal requirements for exemption
More than one excise duty point
Same evidence may serve more than one purpose
The tax gap, which is the difference between the amount of tax due to HMRC and the amount collected, is estimated to have been £36bn in 2014/15, representing some 6.5% of the total tax and duties due.
HMRC has issued fewer than five conduct notices to promoters of tax avoidance schemes since the power was introduced in 2014, says City law firm RPC.