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• Accountancy Tips

  
  Chillicious.com — Authority: 132
  Keep an Eye fixed on the Date The 31st January will be here before we know it. All Self Assessment Tax Returns for the year ended 5th April 2011 must be filed online by 31st January 2012. (The deadline for most paper returns has passed) If you have received a notification from HMRC that theyre expecting a ...
  1 day ago

• Hartnett is right, and yet so, so wrong on the tax gap, for which he’s the main culprit

  
  Tax Research UK — Authority: 515
  The Telegraph reported yesterday that : People who receive cash-in-hand payments for goods and services are harming the economy, according to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) most senior taxman Dave Hartnett. Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, he criticised tradesmen and other workers who try to get out of paying tax ...
  1 day ago

• WARNING: HMRC phishing emails back with a vengeance

  
  Freelance Advisor — Authority: 414
  Its currently the height of tax return season, and this means two things. One, accountants everywhere are pulling their hair out, and two, those dastardly spammers are sending out their bi-annual HMRC phishing emails, attempting to fool innocent freelancers, contractor and small businesses into giving up their ...
  2 days ago

• Beaker Lays Down The Law

  
  HMRC Is Shite — Authority: 411
  I am gemused to read that the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny "Beaker" Alexander, has decreed that athletes resident outside of the UK who compete at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games will be exempt from income tax. Under UK tax rules, any sportsperson not resident in the UK is subject to UK income tax on ...
  3 days ago

• What about a 45p rate? Downing Street debates an interim tax reduction

  
  News Benedict Brogan — Authority: 89
  Given this mornings "disappointing but expected" (it says here) growth figures, how goes the Mexican stand-off between Lib Dems and Tories over the mansion tax and 50p? Plainly, no progress will be made on the issue this side of the election. The signals from the Treasury are that they have given up hope of dealing ...
  4 days ago

• Reasonable Excuse

  
  HMRC Is Shite — Authority: 411
  With the ongoing "hoopla" over fines for the late submission of tax returns, and a heated debate about what constitutes a "reasonable excuse", I am indebted to a loyal reader who dropped me a note about a tax tribunal appeal determined on 17 November last year which featured "reasonable excuse" and delays (another ...
  4 days ago

• HMRC to refund late filing penalties due to strikes

  
  Freelance Advisor — Authority: 414
  With the self-assessment tax return deadline looming, HMRC is facing embarrassment as thousands of their call centre staff are poised to stage a walkout on January 31st.
  4 days ago

• HMRC Lifts Embargo On Talking To BBC About Troops In Afghanistan

  
  HMRC Is Shite — Authority: 411
  I am very pleased to see the very active level of comments from some of my loyal readers about my recent highlighting of a BBC News item about troops serving in Afghanistan being fined by HMRC if they submit their tax returns late. Indeed one of you was so keen to put his/her viewpoint across, that he/she posted 14 ...
  5 days ago

• Homer Shortlisted

  
  HMRC Is Shite — Authority: 411
  Talking of awards, my hearty congratulations to Lin Homer, HMRC’s recently appointed Chief Executive Officer, who herself has recently been "ranked/shortlisted" by the media. In this particular case Homer has been listed seventh in a list of 100 ‘people to watch in 2012’ published in The Times the other day. ...
  5 days ago

• Every Cloud Has Silver Lining

  
  HMRC Is Shite — Authority: 411
  The Telegraph reports that because of the threatened walk out by HMRC staff from call centres on 31 January, HMRC will waive the automatic £100 late fines for anyone whose return was delayed because they could not get through by phone to HMRC on the strike day. Specifically HMRC said that anyone who was ...
  6 days ago

• Working from home and claiming for your home

  
  UK Business Women with something to say — Authority: 493
  Are you a self-employed individual in the UK, preparing your tax return to file by 31st January 2012? Do you carry out this work from your home? If the answer is yes, you are entitled to include part of the running costs of your home in your accounts, which will save you some tax. But [...] Working from home and ...
  6 days ago

• Troops In Afghanistan Fined For Late Tax Returns

  
  HMRC Is Shite — Authority: 411
  HONOUROURFORCES HONOUROURFORCES The Tax Office says that troops in Afghanistan will be fined if they are late with there tax returns Bloody Crazy, @ HONOUROURFORCES Pls RT BBC Members of the armed forces serving in Afghanistan could be fined if they fail to submit ...
  1 week ago

• HMRC penalties ruling highlights enforcement inconsistencies

  
  Freelance Advisor — Authority: 414
  HMRC has taken a lot of stick for its late filing penalties recently - and rightly so. The fines, which can easily run into the thousands of pounds for small businesses (even if they do not owe any tax) are completely out of step with those levied at companies orders of magnitude larger.
  1 week ago

• HMRCs Money Making Scam II

  
  HMRC Is Shite — Authority: 411
  Now, as my loyal readers know, we are rapidly approaching the deadline (31 January) for the filing of online tax returns for tax year end 2011. This year HMRC have added another money making string to their bow, in the shape of an automatic fine of £100 for any returns that are submitted late ( even if there is no ...
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• Consumer confidence ‘at low ebb’

  
  Business - Innovative Solution — Authority: 128
  18 January 2012 Last updated at 19:00 ET Consumer confidence in the UK was "at a low ebb" in December, according to the Nationwide Building Society. Its Consumer Confidence Index fell to 38 last month from 40 in November, although it was still above Octobers record low of 36. Nationwide blamed the rising cost of ...
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• HMRCs £100K Giveaway

  
  HMRC Is Shite — Authority: 411
  Despite Stephen Hardwicks assertion that penalties are the correct way to encourage people to submit their tax returns and pay their taxes on time: " We use penalties purely to encourage on-time filing." It seems that others are willing to think outside of the box, and use other means to encourage on time filing ...
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• HMRC’s late filing penalties deemed “illegal”

  
  Freelance Advisor — Authority: 414
  HMRC is not having a good start to 2012. The Independent has published a piece highlighting HMRCs late filing penalties, which were deemed illegal by Geraint Jones, QC in a Tax Tribunal last September.
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• Hang On A Minute!

  
  HMRC Is Shite — Authority: 411
  My thanks to a loyal reader who sent me a copy of an article posted on the HMRC intranet last week by The Director Corporate Communications, Stephen Hardwick. It is on a strand called Hang on a Minute!" which basically answers criticism from the press on various HMRC issues. Here it is: " The Independent :  ...
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• Taxmen go on strike as self-assessment deadline nears

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Finance Blog — Authority: 579
  News of lightning walk-outs and strikes by up to 20,000 members of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) call centre staff raises the obvious question: how can anyone tell? It’s difficult enough getting through at the best of times – and, with millions of self-assessment tax returns due before the end of this month – ...
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• Could you face £1,600 taxman fine?

  
  Daily Finance UK — Authority: 137
  Filed under: Tax PA/PA Archive/Press Association Images Things arent looking good for the self-assessment laggards. According to an investigation by the Daily Telegraph , up to three million of them could end up with a fine for late filing this January. And thanks to the new rules, they dont have a get ...
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