Search Results for: HM Revenue and Customs
UK Accountancy Firms shrink after HMRC Efforts
August 27th, 2014
HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) increasingly tough stance on tax planning is taking its toll on the UK accountancy industry, according to finance provider LDF. There was a 4 percent drop in the number of accountancy firms registered in ...
HMRC Consults On Strict Liability Tax Penalties
August 26th, 2014
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is consulting on the design of a proposed new strict liability criminal offence for those who fail to declare taxable offshore income and gains. Under the plans, magistrates could be given the power to ...
HMRC Battles Glasgow Rangers Over Tax Dispute
August 8th, 2014
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has appeal for permission to begin a tax battle involving Scottish football club Rangers’ use of employee benefit trusts. HMRC argued that the former giant of the Scottish Premier League should tax its employees’ ...
HMRC: Tax avoiders have opportunity to settle their issues
August 1st, 2014
Around 16,000 tax avoiders are to be given the chance to settle their outstanding liabilities with HM Revenue & Customs, the department has confirmed. On average, each of the users of the contractor loan schemes covered by this settlement ...
HMRC’s plan for debt recovery plan
July 31st, 2014
The Law Society has joined the chorus of opposition to government plans to allow HM Revenue & Customs direct access to tax defaulters’ bank accounts. In its response to HMRC’s call for evidence on new powers for direct recovery ...
HMRC publishes list of suspect tax avoidance schemes
July 15th, 2014
HM Customs and Revenue (HMRC) has published a list of more than 800 schemes that it believes are deliberately designed to avoid tax. The list consists of a series of numbers, allowing them to be identified by the tax-payers ...
Rangers tax case: questions over HMRC’s motivation
July 11th, 2014
Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) on Wednesday lost its latest legal fight over a claim that Rangers were liable for a £46.2 million bill over the club’s use of a scheme to make payments to its employees. Placing ...
HMRC justifies new powers to take money from your bank account
July 10th, 2014
HMRC is seeking new powers to trawl through debtors’ financial accounts and take money directly if significant debts of over £1,000 are owed. This power has been dubbed ‘Direct Recovery of Debts’. The HMRC Business Plan 2014-16 states that ...
New HMRC Anti-Avoidance Rules Could Trigger Insolvencies
July 9th, 2014
A wave of insolvencies could be triggered when HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) gets the power to force those who have used tax avoidance schemes to pay the disputed money upfront, accountancy firm Moore Stephens has warned. David Elliott, ...
Switzerland informs UK over Bank Deposit Movements
June 3rd, 2014
Swiss banks were required to hand over information about deposit movements to UK authorities by May 31, 2014, to support UK efforts to track down untaxed income. This was required under an agreement between the UK and Switzerland, which ...
