Category Archives: Employment Tax Expert

Plumbers arrested in HMRC Tax Investigation Crackdown

HMRC Tax Investigation into plumbers has begun in ernest Five plumbers have been arrested and around 600 are under civil investigation by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) for failing to pay the right amount of tax. The arrests and investigations … Continue reading

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HMRC Trial Single Tax Compliance Process

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has announced trials of a Single Compliance Process for tax enquiries across a range of taxes. By simplifying and standardising the process for compliance checks HMRC believe they will “improve customer experience” and reduce costs … Continue reading

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HMRC Targets Construction Industry tax abuse

HM Revenue & Customs has confirmed it is taking on an extra 100 officers to target tax abuses in the construction industry. HMRC said it is doubling the number of specialist officers cracking down on labour providers who fail to … Continue reading

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Employers – Class 1A NIC refund?

This represents a partial National Insurance refund opportunity for the tax years 2003/2004 to 2005/2006. The background to this is as follows: Where an employer provides a director or an employee with a benefit in kind that has mixed use … Continue reading

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Accountant to face jail over investigation tip-off

This employment tax expert warns all readers of the increased use of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (PoCA) by police and government agencies that has been highlighted by the recent case of Kishor Doshi, director of Sunderland accountancy and … Continue reading

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Bribery Act 2010 – implementation delayed

The Bribery Act 2010, that was due to come into force in April 2011, has been delayed according to the Ministry of Justice. Under the Act the Secretary of State must publish guidance about procedures that relevant commercial organisations can … Continue reading

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MPs Expenses – another snout in the trough brought to justice

This employment tax expert says, let’s have further tax investigations into expenses claimed by MPs and Peers following the conviction of Lord Taylor of Warwick of false accounting over his House of Lords expenses. The peer had argued the six … Continue reading

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Secret tax code underpayment write off

The Daily Telegraph reports that up to 250,000 pensioner who, because of errors on their tax codes, have unwittingly underpaid tax will have their underpaid tax debt written off. This group of people would have an excellent claim against any … Continue reading

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HMRC – who is responsible?

This employment tax expert asks, when is someone in government going to take responsibility for the continued mess that is HMRC rather than just passing the buck and making media statements (this is not a political statement as no government … Continue reading

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MP’s Expenses – some justice for the ordinary taxpayer

This employment tax expert wrote some time ago about the disgrace that was the MPs expense saga. It was quite simple, an employee would be under a PAYE/NIC investigation, if found guilty, sacked and likely prosecuted, so why should MPs … Continue reading

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