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• Communications

  
  HMRC Is Shite — Authority: 125
  I understand that HMRC, in an effort to save money, has decided to ask non English speaking people who call HMRC by phone (who require interpreters) if they have someone with them that can speak English or they can phone back once they have found a "friend" who can interpret for them. This will save £75 per call ...
  19 hours ago

• High Net Worth

  
  HMRC Is Shite — Authority: 125
  The Sunday Times has a slightly "shouty" headline " Taxman targets exiles who keep UK toehold ": " RICH Britons who claim to have moved overseas could find themselves back in the clutches of the taxman if they have hung on to a car, a mobile phone number or even a golf club membership in the UK ." The article ...
  1 day ago

• HMRCs Massive Extension

  
  HMRC Is Shite — Authority: 125
  In a clear admission of defeat, and as a result of protests by banks over the workload involved in informing on their customers, HMRC have extended their deadline for taxpayers to register their offshore holdings from the end of this month to January 4 2010. Seemingly the fish are not yet scared enough to jump into ...
  4 days ago

• Revenue extends deadline for offshore tax amnesty

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is extending the deadline for the tax amnesty on offshore bank accounts.
  5 days ago

• Report: New broadband tax could triple

  
  Electricpig.co.uk - The UK's fastest-growing tech news site — Authority: 725
  A controversial new broadband tax to help subsidise the cost of laying down pipes for next-gen surfing speeds could triple from the original amount for nearly two million households, according to a new report. According to documents seen by The Times, the proposed £6 per year (50p per month) tax on landlines will ...
  5 days ago

• A Spanking of Laziness

  
  HMRC Is Shite — Authority: 125
  HMRC have got themselves in hot water over a blanket mailshot of around 30,000 letters, re offshore accounts, some of which were sent to the wrong people. The letter urged the recipient to disclose funds held in their offshore accounts, under the New Disclosure Opportunity (NDO), even though the NDO rules didnt ...
  5 days ago

• Tax bad debts rocket as recession bites

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  The amount of unpaid tax which is being written off by the Government has rocketed to over £11 billion this year while tax revenues plummet because of the recession.
  1 week ago

• What happens in a Jersey fund? Not a lot, since you ask

  
  Tax Research UK — Authority: 566
  A commentator on this blog has said , initially quoting me, and overall in response to comment by Dave Hartnett : “Tax compliance is seeking to pay the right amount of tax (but no more) in the right place at the right time where right means that the economic substance of the transactions undertaken coincides ...
  1 week ago

• A Hopeless Romantic

  
  HMRC Is Shite — Authority: 125
  Gavin Hinks, of Accountancy Age , thinks that Dave Hartnett is a hopeless romantic. What say you? Tax does have to be taxing. Professional Cover Against the Threat of Costly TAX and VAT Investigations What is TAXWISE ? TAXWISE is a tax-fee protection service that will pay up to £75,000 towards your ...
  1 week ago

• Hartnett whips up a storm on tax compliance

  
  Tax Research UK — Authority: 566
  Hartnett whips up a storm at the ICAEW - Accountancy Age . The permanent secretary for tax and commissioner of HM Revenue & Customs has never been afraid of ruffling a few feathers and Dave Hartnett did not disappoint at a recent address to some of the UK’s most eminent tax advisers. Hartnett set out plans ...
  1 week ago

• Cry Freedom

  
  HMRC Is Shite — Authority: 125
  Data obtained by the law firm McGrigors shows that 27 people have registered with HMRC, since the Liechtenstein Disclosure Opportunity was opened on September 1. However, HMRC have refused a similar Freedom of Information Act request wrt how many people have registered for the New Disclosure Opportunity (NDO). The ...
  1 week ago

• Futile Arse Covering

  
  HMRC Is Shite — Authority: 125
  Dave Hartnett continues to do the rounds, as he tries to encourage people to declare offshore holdings. In a recent interview with The Telegraph he is quoted: " My hunch, it is only a hunch, is that a disproportionately large number of your readers will be relatively wealthy, will have hidden some money offshore, ...
  1 week ago

• Dave Hartnet: The Chancellor’s tax enforcer who just hates to lose

  
  Tax Research UK — Authority: 566
  Dave Hartnet: The Chancellor’s tax enforcer who just hates to lose - Telegraph . Hartnett says: I think our top priority right now is the work we are doing to end tax secrecy, particularly in tax havens He’s right.
  2 weeks ago

• HMRCs Definition of ASAP

  
  HMRC Is Shite — Authority: 125
  HMRCs recently launched charter promises to " put mistakes right as soon as we can ". What does " as soon as we can " actually mean? One month? No! Two months? No! Six months? No! HMRC in fact seem to regard " as soon as we can " as being a "paltry" 13 months! The figures come from the adjudicators ...
  2 weeks ago

• Royal Mail’s loss of VAT exemption ‘won’t affect direct mail’

  
  e-clipsblog — Authority: 125
  Royal Mail has been told that it will soon be forced to begin charging valued added tax (VAT) for many of its services, but not on direct mail because its delivery is price-controlled and subject to regulation. The decision on VAT by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) follows a ruling by the European Court of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tax boss Dave Hartnett sets sights on middle classes

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Around 100000 bank customers risk being targeted as the taxman prepares for the biggest crackdown on untaxed holdings in offshore accounts.
  2 weeks ago

• Dave Hartnet: The Chancellors tax enforcer who just hates to lose

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Dave Hartnett is not the taxman you want sitting on the other side of the desk if youve anything to hide.
  2 weeks ago

• Im A Celebrity Taxman Get Me Out of Here!

  
  HMRC Is Shite — Authority: 125
  It seems that tax supremo, Dave Hartnett, fresh from his "critically acclaimed" appearance on YouTube, has got the taste for celebrity and may well have fantasies about appearing in the jungle with Jordan et al. That at least would seem to be the conclusion that one could draw from his appearance last week at ...
  2 weeks ago

• The British taxman has become a laughing-stock

  
  Bearwatch — Authority: 128
  Following the ridiculous 2001 sale of the taxmans own offices to a property company that smartly transferred the ownership to the tax haven of Bermuda, the British Treasury has made itself into a charity case and is asking for tax-deductible donations to reduce the National Debt.
  2 weeks ago

• HMRC launch new Charter

  
  Holden Associates - Accountants & Business Advisers Blog — Authority: 113
  Did you know that HMRC has launched a new charter for individuals, businesses and other groups and organisations who deal with the department. I know, didn’t we have something like this before? Well lets hope the new Charter provides a little bit more protection for those dealing with HMRC. For the Charter click ...
  2 weeks ago

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