HMRC Is Shite

HMRC Is Shite
Dedicated to the taxpayers of Britain, and the employees of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC), who have to endure the monumental shambles that is HMRC.

Friday, 17 May 2013

Stemcor



Tax does have to be taxing.

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The Turn of The Seasons



Christmas may come early for some 3.5 million people, who have overpaid their tax in 2012/13 and are now owed refunds by HMRC averaging between £350 and £500.

However, another 2 million people will not be so happy; as they owe HMRC between £400 and £500, because of tax underpayments.

Thus we find ourselves in "year end reconciliation" season again, as HMRC balances its books (so to speak). The reconciliation process returns without fail each year with the depressing inevitability of an unloved season. The reconciliation process is expected to last until October.

The Guardian reports that HMRC has said it is sympathetic to cases of genuine hardship, and those who cannot afford to pay should get in touch. These people may be able to pay what they owe over two or three years.

Tax does have to be taxing.

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Thursday, 16 May 2013

Well Said Homer!



HMRC’s Homer sticks it to Hodge at . Says HMRC duty is to collect tax due under law, not what MPs think "fair" tax due should be.

Source

Tax does have to be taxing.

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Insurance to protect you against the cost of enquiry or dispute with HMRC is available from several sources including Solar Tax Investigation Insurance.

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However, neither Ken Frost nor HMRCISSHITE either endorses or recommends their services.

What is Solar Tax Investigation Insurance?

Solar Tax Investigation Insurance is a tax-fee protection service that will pay up to £75,000 towards your accountant's fees in the event of an HM Revenue & Customs full enquiry or dispute.

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PAC - Tax Avoidance


PAC are currently grilling Google and Homer about tax avoidance.

Witness(es): Matt Brittin, Vice President for Sale and Operations, Northern and Central Europe, Google and John Dixon, Head of Tax, Ernst and Young; Lin Homer, Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary, HM Revenue and Customs and Jim Harra, Director General Business Tax, HM Revenue and Customs

Follow it live here.

Tax does have to be taxing.

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Insurance to protect you against the cost of enquiry or dispute with HMRC is available from several sources including Solar Tax Investigation Insurance.

Ken Frost has negotiated a 10% discount on any polices that may suit your needs.

However, neither Ken Frost nor HMRCISSHITE either endorses or recommends their services.

What is Solar Tax Investigation Insurance?

Solar Tax Investigation Insurance is a tax-fee protection service that will pay up to £75,000 towards your accountant's fees in the event of an HM Revenue & Customs full enquiry or dispute.

To find out more, please use this link Solar Tax Investigation Insurance



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UK Uncut Loses Case


UK Uncut Legal Action has lost its High Court action against HMRC.
"Not a glorious episode in history of Revenue."

Now we await the knighthoods and assorted gongs for those in HMRC who helped save Osborne embarrassment.

Tax does have to be taxing.

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Insurance to protect you against the cost of enquiry or dispute with HMRC is available from several sources including Solar Tax Investigation Insurance.

Ken Frost has negotiated a 10% discount on any polices that may suit your needs.

However, neither Ken Frost nor HMRCISSHITE either endorses or recommends their services.

What is Solar Tax Investigation Insurance?

Solar Tax Investigation Insurance is a tax-fee protection service that will pay up to £75,000 towards your accountant's fees in the event of an HM Revenue & Customs full enquiry or dispute.

To find out more, please use this link Solar Tax Investigation Insurance



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Wednesday, 15 May 2013

HMRC's Motley Crew of Defaulters


HMRC have published another list of "deliberate tax defaulters". They are not quite multi million pound evaders, but instead are a rather motley crew; including a kebab shop owner, a painter/labourer and a publican.

All very well, maybe, if this deters people from tax evasion. However, there is a caveat, the people named may now well have "gone straight" and the addresses used may now have no connection with said miscreants!

As per HMRC:
"Please note that each entry on the list is specific to the default dates to which it refers. This address is the one associated with the published person at the time of the default. 

It should not be assumed that tax defaults are currently taking place at the published address or by the published person because, for example: 
- the published person may have changed their behaviour 
- the published person may no longer be at the published address 
- the business currently at the published address may have no connection with published business 
- the business currently at the published address may have the same name as the published business but could be under completely new management"

Tax does have to be taxing.

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Insurance to protect you against the cost of enquiry or dispute with HMRC is available from several sources including Solar Tax Investigation Insurance.

Ken Frost has negotiated a 10% discount on any polices that may suit your needs.

However, neither Ken Frost nor HMRCISSHITE either endorses or recommends their services.

What is Solar Tax Investigation Insurance?

Solar Tax Investigation Insurance is a tax-fee protection service that will pay up to £75,000 towards your accountant's fees in the event of an HM Revenue & Customs full enquiry or dispute.

To find out more, please use this link Solar Tax Investigation Insurance



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Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Charity Begins at Home


Over a month ago I wrote that HMRC was going to send some of its experts to Pakistan to offer advice on how to increase its tax take.

It seems that, despite the fact the resources are scarce in HMRC's UK operations and that there are room for improvements in service/efficiency etc, Pakistan is not the only country that will receive help from HMRC.

The Guardian reported last week that HMRC will work with Ethiopian and Tanzanian tax authorities to undertake a health check to look at the structure of their revenue authorities, their potential to raise tax, and the degree of corruption or evasion either by individuals or companies.

All very nice and charitable. However, as I have noted before; why don't the HMRC experts stay at home, and help advise HMRC resolve its own issues wrt tax collection?

As the old saying goes, charity begins at home!

Tax does have to be taxing.

Professional Cover Against the Threat of Costly TAX and VAT Investigations

Insurance to protect you against the cost of enquiry or dispute with HMRC is available from several sources including Solar Tax Investigation Insurance.

Ken Frost has negotiated a 10% discount on any polices that may suit your needs.

However, neither Ken Frost nor HMRCISSHITE either endorses or recommends their services.

What is Solar Tax Investigation Insurance?

Solar Tax Investigation Insurance is a tax-fee protection service that will pay up to £75,000 towards your accountant's fees in the event of an HM Revenue & Customs full enquiry or dispute.

To find out more, please use this link Solar Tax Investigation Insurance



HMRC Is Shite (www.hmrcisshite.com), also available via the domain www.hmrconline.com, is brought to you by www.kenfrost.com "The Living Brand"

Monday, 13 May 2013

Schizophrenic Tax Policies


As loyal readers know, whilst I am critical of HMRC I also regularly point out that much of the blame for HMRC's plight/performance and the shambles of a tax system that we have in this country lies with HMRC's political masters and their hypocrisy wrt tax avoidance etc.

The issue of politics and tax was brought up by John Cridland the Director General of the CBI last week, when he noted that the Government’s claimed pro-enterprise drive, including cutting the corporation tax rate from 28%c to 20% by 2015, is being muddied by its anti avoidance rhetoric directed against companies.

He was quoted by the Telegraph:
Many UK CEOs of global businesses have had telephone calls from their global CEOs somewhere else on the planet saying, 'We are just a bit confused'.

On the one hand we see this drive to make the UK the most tax-competitive capital in the G20. On the other hand, politicians are increasingly critical of business in Britain as somehow not paying its fair share in tax. 

That confusion of purpose – are we making the UK more tax competitive? Are we sending signals that somehow big business can’t be trusted? – needs reconciling.
But at the same time there’s a schizophrenia here.

Because when the Prime Minister said at Davos, 'Wake up and smell the coffee,’ he was talking to the wider international business community and particularly those operating in the UK.

That being said, the CBI recognised that businesses need to do more to explain themselves; especially as many politicians have never done a days work in their lives in the real world, and are seemingly completely ignorant of the difference between turnover and profit.

Cridland said:
My message to business is … get on the front foot and make your case, because it’s not a bad case to make.

My message to Government would be: constructively challenge us, but be clear what endgame you are looking for – which is [that] the UK is [seen as] a great place from which to do global business, and modern transparent tax arrangements that have no room for abuse are a critical part of that, and be clear on your signalling.
Sadly I suspect the calls to the politicians will fall on deaf ears; the political pygmies that currently inhabit Westminster are dog whistle sound bite chasing individuals who do not lead from the front or by example, and who have no interest in simplifying the chronically complex tax system that we have in place in the his country.


Tax does have to be taxing.

Professional Cover Against the Threat of Costly TAX and VAT Investigations

Insurance to protect you against the cost of enquiry or dispute with HMRC is available from several sources including Solar Tax Investigation Insurance.

Ken Frost has negotiated a 10% discount on any polices that may suit your needs.

However, neither Ken Frost nor HMRCISSHITE either endorses or recommends their services.

What is Solar Tax Investigation Insurance?

Solar Tax Investigation Insurance is a tax-fee protection service that will pay up to £75,000 towards your accountant's fees in the event of an HM Revenue & Customs full enquiry or dispute.

To find out more, please use this link Solar Tax Investigation Insurance



Tax Investigation for Dummies, by Nick Morgan, provides a good and easy to read guide for anyone caught up in an HMRC tax investigation. A must read for any Self Assessment taxpayer.

Click the link to read about: Tax Investigation for Dummies

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