Category Archives: Employer Tax Compliance

HMRC Tax Investigation strategy – beware!

Tax investigations are taking a new, slightly sinister twist – HMRC are allegedly demanding personal financial records from business people, without proper grounds for suspicion. This comes about at a time when Section CH223430 of HMRC’s Tax Investigation handbook appears … Continue reading

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HMRC Tax Investigations – debt collection

Anyone who has a debt with HMRC, whether it be from a Tax Investigation, employer compliance review, employment status review, PAYE/NIC/CIS or Self Assessment you need to take heed of what is happening regarding HMRC debt collection agents. To begin … Continue reading

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IR35 – when is abolished, not abolished …?

All herald the end of IR35, the complex and utterly futile attempt at raising extra revenue by re categorising self employed individuals as deemed employees – not quite! Although the Small Business Minister, Mark Frisk said in an interview with … Continue reading

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HMRC Time to Pay arrangements may go in the Budget

The Time to Pay arrangements that have helped many a business struggling with cashflow may be a target for cutbacks in the Budget next week. There have already been moves to place restrictions on those wishing to delay payments in … Continue reading

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IR35 Employment Status – Coalition v. HMRC

So in an effort to simplify the tax position of self employed individuals, the Coalition has announced that they are to review IR35, which in theory is good news. Far too much time and money has been taken up with … Continue reading

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Investigation required

An investigation of what you may ask yourself but it’s all very circular as you will see and unfortunately it comes back to the fact that more companies will be subject to employer compliance visits, tax investigations to raise funds … Continue reading

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HMRC “in year” penalties will catch companies out

HMRC have gradually been introducing various penalty changes and “in year” late payment penalties are something new for this tax year but there has been very little publicity about this latest addition to the employer compliance review/tax investigation/Construction Industry Scheme … Continue reading

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False Self Employment in the Construction Industry Update

At last the results of the consultation exercise, False Self Employment in the Construction Industry have been published and we seem to be back to an old style consultation – we ask for your views then when we don’t like … Continue reading

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Inland Revenue tax code debacle rumbles on

HMRC have huge problems on their hands with potential incorrect notices of coding being issued – all of which is down to new computer problems. How many times have we heard this and this isn’t have a go at HMRC … Continue reading

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HMRC and not employers to calculate employees pay

Under Conservative proposals, income tax and national insurance contributions would automatically be deducted from employees’ gross pay, removing the need for employers to process different tax codes and pay income tax for employees. This means the responsibility for calculating NI … Continue reading

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