Taxpayers who have PAYE underpayments of more than £2,000 and contact HMRC to discuss their circumstances will not be charged interest on late payment, HMRC officials have told MPs.
Dave Hartnett, HMRC’s Permanent Secretary for Tax, is set to be questioned by the House of Commons Treasury Committee today on HMRC’s operation of the PAYE system.
When Dave Hartnett, HMRC’s Permanent Secretary for Tax, told the BBC’s Paul Lewis that he was not sure that he saw a need to apologise, he was responding to an invitation to ‘apologise to the six
The Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Taxation Group accused the UK’s senior tax official, Dave Hartnett, of arrogance after Hartnett claimed in a radio interview broadcast on 11 September that there was no need to apologise over the scale of PAYE over and underpayments.
Leading tax bodies have criticised HMRC’s decision to withdraw or suspend, without prior consultation, the issue of agent’s copies of forms sent to taxpayers.
HMRC will not pursue cases where the amount owed is less than £300, which account for 40% of all underpayments, David Gauke told MPs.
HMRC has published guidance to help tax agents ensure that forms sent to its Central Agent Authorisation Team (CAAT) are processed as quickly as possible. HMRC asks agents to:
Employers who are using the Employer CD-ROM to help run their payroll systems ‘must update it now’ to ensure it has the most up-to-date guidance and calculators, HMRC announced.
The Treasury published minutes of the 30 July meeting of the ‘CFC interim improvements’ working group, slides outlining the aim and scope of the interim improvements, and details of the group’s approved terms of reference.
The Treasury published minutes of the 3 August meeting of the ‘Taxation of foreign branches’ working group, and the group’s approved terms of reference. This consultation is set to close on 15 October.
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