Thursday 29 March 2018

WTF??



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HMRC AML Registration Glitches



Property Industry Eye reports that despite numerous problems that agents are experiencing in trying to re-register with HMRC for anti-money laundering, the April 1 deadline is fixed.

HMRC is not only holding to the deadline, but has said that agents who have not re-registered by midnight this Saturday will be de-registered, and will then be charged £100 as new applicants.

EYE has asked HMRC to re-consider, saying it is unfair.

Most agents have until April 1 to register, as this was the date that HMRC took over responsibility for AML in 2014.

However, almost all of the agents who contacted EYE say that they have already been trying to re-register for weeks on end, without success, and have no chance of meeting Sunday’s deadline.

Some have said that they have received emails from HMRC telling them they have messages relating to their AML supervision – but have been unable to access the messages, and can only assume they are about the need to re-register.

Others have been informed that it will take 40 or 45 days to confirm whether or not they are registered.

An HMRC spokesperson said: 
We are aware that a number of customers have forgotten or lost their log-in details, and we are assisting them to reset these so that they can access their AMLS accounts.
Businesses due to renew their registration are sent up to three emails in the 30 days before their renewal date, reminding them that they need to renew.
Once a business has paid and submitted their renewal, they are treated as registered regardless of how long it takes HMRC to review their submission.

For customers whose renewal year runs from 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018 the online system will automatically cancel their registration if renewal hasn’t been made by midnight on 31 March. Once registration has been cancelled the business will need to reapply and pay a new application charge of £100 as well as their premises fees.
I don't know, but it seems that HMRC haven't addressed the key issue, namely that agents can't seem to be able to register?

These are just some of the issues highlighted in emails to EYE:
* I am experiencing issues while trying to renew my registration. It all started last week when I partially completed the application. When I endeavoured to complete the process the following day their system would not allow me to ‘Continue’ as this link did nothing when trying to click it. Reported the problem online, received an automated reply and eventually another email with ‘ticket’ reference number and message stating an engineer will investigate.
* I have filled in all the required data and tried to re-register only to get message ‘membership being reviewed, allow 45 days for a reply’. Another reader was quoted 40 days.
* I keep getting emails that I have a message and to log in, but can’t log in as I haven’t got the my log-in details. I’m presuming the message is that I need to renew. (This specific problem was reported more than once.)
* The HMRC registration website is a complete joke, when you eventually do get through, it constantly rejects your payments or at least it appears to but you don’t know because it doesn’t acknowledge payments and of course you no longer get a registration document.
* I start the process but when I finish I am told that I have already registered under a different number. I am not told which number and the help email that follows offers insufficient assistance.
*We have 4 companies to register. 3 went through no problem but unable to do the 4th company as HMRC haven’t processed last year’s registration online and so won’t let me do this year’s. Have reported to HMRC who have promised to get back to me in the next 5 working days. I stipulated over the phone that this needs to be done by the 1st April.
* Having major problems trying to get into our AML account. We’ve tried retrieving the password, then trying to re-set the password, but no luck despite numerous attempts and phone calls to the HMRC helpline. After waiting ages, and being asked to make endless selections (press 1, 2, 3, 4 etc), we got through, but the HMRC helpline advisers don’t know where to direct our enquiries.
* Reader who is retiring from estate agency has been unable to access his account to de-register his business. Instead, he says he has been told to register again – which is of course absurd. However, as he has been warned that failure to re-register by the deadline means he will no longer be supervised by HMRC, he considers it “job done”.
* One agent, with a deadline different from April 1, was sent a letter saying he would be fined £1,000. This was after he spent two months trying to re-register. The agent has now managed to do this after the helpline gave him a new web-link: www.tax.service.gov.uk/anti-money-laundering

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Tuesday 27 March 2018

Treasury Select Committee To Probe HMRC



The Treasury select committee is set to probe HMRC and ask for evidence on how HMRC deals with tax enquiries and the resolution of tax disputes.

The probe is part of three wide-ranging probes into Britain's tax system, and will cover everything from value added tax to whether the tax office treats companies and individuals differently in an unfair manner.

The committee reported it is inviting written submissions dealing with how HMRC governance and settlement processes affect its ability to resolve tax disputes in a proportionate and fair way.

The MPs will also look into whether HMRC's collection and management powers result in fair outcomes and whether its approach to tax compliance leads to disproportionate and unjust results.

The committee will also investigate the tax gap in VAT, where HMRC collects significantly less value-added tax (VAT) than it estimates it should every year.


Nicky Morgan MP, chairman of the Treasury select committee, is quoted by the FT:
"HMRC collected around £124bn in VAT last year – over a fifth of the UK's total tax take – and failed to collect around £12.6bn in VAT.

The reasons for why VAT is so vulnerable are somewhat opaque, so the committee will examine how this might be addressed.

Brexit may provide both opportunities and challenges to the UK's approach to VAT. The government may choose to stick to a broadly similar structure to what currently exists, change it, or abolish it completely.

We will examine the chief concerns for HMRC and businesses going forward, and what impact Brexit will have on HMRC's efforts to reduce the VAT element of the tax gap."
Good luck getting straight answers from HMRC!

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Friday 23 March 2018

1 In 4 Accountants Not Aware of MTD

Scary for a number of reasons!

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Thursday 22 March 2018

HMRC Adviser Jailed For Fraud


The BBC reports that an HMRC adviser, who did not pay income tax for 13 years has been jailed, with a judge saying sparing him from custody would cause "outrage".

Amjad Khan failed to pay almost £16,000 between 2002 and 2015 while working for the HMRC in Bradford.

He also pocketed nearly £24,000 in tax credits to which he was not entitled as part of the "appalling and blatant" fraud.

Khan admitted the fraud offences at Bradford Crown Court last year.

At the same time as he was working for the HMRC in Bradford city centre, the married father-of-three was also earning money through a property rental business and his work as a self-employed gas and heating engineer.

Prosecutor Howard Shaw said Khan of Burnett Avenue, Bradford, had claimed in a tax return for the year 2014/15 that both his businesses were loss-making even though analysis of his bank accounts showed they were profitable.

The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC, said all the time Khan had been working for HMRC advising people about their "rights and wrongs" he had been committing fraud against the state.
"You were evading income tax over a 13-year period," said the judge, who described the frauds as "appalling and blatant".

The judge said a 20-month prison sentence would have to be served and the public would be outraged if the court did not deal with Khan in a robust way.

Khan is expected face a further hearing under the Proceeds of Crime Act later in the year in bid to get back the money he obtained through fraud.

Tax does have to be taxing.

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Wednesday 21 March 2018

Something Smells At The BBC



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Tuesday 20 March 2018

HMRC Leads The Way In Robotics


James Merrick-Potter, head of robotic automation at the Cabinet Office, is quoted by Computing as saying that HMRC is "leading the way for Government in using RPA [robotic process automation] to deliver real savings and service improvements… Their model is being mirrored by Cabinet Office to accelerate the use of RPA across government."

He added that HMRC is "at least two to three years ahead of the rest of Government" when it comes to robotics.

HMRC said:
"Leading the way in Government robotics, Cabinet Office recognises our approach as best practice.

Other government departments visit to learn from our experience and we have arranged licences for DWP and others to do proof-of-concept projects."
Now I don't know about anyone else, but this scares the hell out of me that HMRC is leading the way!

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Monday 19 March 2018

The Danger of Calling Taxpayers "Customers"


Many taxpayers are sick to death of being called "customers" by HMRC, given that taxpayers have no choice but to "use" HMRC's "services".

However, calling taxpayers "customers" has come back to bite HMRC on the arse.

Step forward Mr Marc Capuano who appealed against the penalties that HMRC imposed under Schedule 55 of the Finance Act 2009 (‘Schedule 5 5’) for a failure to submit the 2011 - 12 self - assessment return (‘SA return’) on time.

The penalties that were charged can be summarised as follows:

(1) a £100 late filing penalty under paragraph 3 of Schedule 55 imposed on 14 October 2014 . 10
(2) Daily penalties totalling £900 under paragraph 4 of Schedule 55 imposed on 14 April 2015 .
(3) a £300 six - month penalty under paragraph 5 of Schedule 55 imposed on 14 April 2015.
(4) a £300 twelve - month penalty under paragraph 5 of Schedule 55 15 imposed on 13 October 2015.

The appellant had three separate part - time employments in the year 2011 - 12, and under each employment, he received the full personal allowance against his earnings, which totalled £9,222.89.

As a result of the personal allowance having been allocated against his overall 20 taxable earnings more than once, there was a net shortfall in PAYE deducted of £349 in 2011 - 12 . The PAYE underpayment could have been collected by adjusting the coding notice for the following year, or settled as a one - off payment.

For whatever reasons which are not on file, HMRC’s review letter stated that the PAYE underpayment 25 could not be ‘coded out’. Consequently, the appellant was served a paper return to file for 2011 - 12 on 30 June 2014. As the return was issued outwith the normal self - assessment cycle, it was due for filing 3 months and a week after the date of issue, which was 7 October 2014 .

The return was eventually filed electronically with HMRC on 31 March 2016, 30 which was almost 18 months after the return filing date .

The Tribunal notes that the appellant was also late in filing his return for 2010 - 11, and had incurred the maximum penalties in relation thereto of £1,600. The penalties for 2010 - 11 have been cancelled by HMRC on review, and is not a matter before the Tribunal.

The Tribunal ruled in Mr Capuano's favour, on the grounds that he had a reasonable excuse.

The Tribunal went on to note that the appellant’s experience of frustrated attempts to contact HMRC would seem to fit into the period of ‘staggeringly bad ’ delivery of customer service between December 2012 to June 2015 .

Without the knowledge and former experience in filing an SA return, the appellant quite understandably turned to HMRC for help. The taxpayers are supposed to be ‘customers’ of HMRC receiving a service too, but the service that could be expected by the appellant from HMRC failed to deliver at the material time.

Viewed in this light, the appellant’s delay in filing the return was excusable.
"The appellant would seem to be one of the taxpayers who had been failed by HMRC in this respect."
What goes around, comes around!

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Friday 16 March 2018

HMRC Overruled On Blocked Pension Relief


HMRC has been told to allow pension tax relief at source on non-cash contributions, granting a provisional reprieve on what could amount to millions of pounds in tax.

These 'in-specie' contributions are where property, shares or other assets are used to contribute to a pension, instead of cash. Following these in-specie contributions, Sipp firms can claim tax relief back from HMRC, the same as for normal cash contributions.

Two years ago HMRC challenged certain contribution agreements. In August 2016 Citywire's New Model Adviser® revealed that a number of Sipp providers had suspended in specie contributions over fears HMRC was changing its tax relief position.


HMRC then wrote to Sipp providers asking them to pay back tax relief on in-specie contributions, with the assessment backdated to the 2012/13 tax year.

Citywire reports that in a ruling on 10 March, Judge Heather Gething ruled against HMRC’s decision, allowing the appeal by the Sipp providers. She said the meaning of the term ‘contribution paid’ was ‘wide enough to cover a transfer of assets in satisfaction of a debt as occurred in this case’.


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Wednesday 14 March 2018

Capita Blames HMRC For Pensions Clusterfuck!


Our old chums from Crapita have hit the headlines recently, having accidentally charged 17,000 former miners tens of thousands of pounds in extra tax

Fear not, Craptia have blamed the error on a change to HMRC's online PAYE portal.

Chris Kitchen, general secretary of the country's National Union of Mineworkers, is unimpressed and told The Register that Capita should have properly tested the new system before taking it live.
"And someone at HMRC should have picked up the area and applied common sense to pensions being hit with tax demands of £50,000 when they shouldn't have had to pay anything."

HMRC said:
"Where we are provided with incorrect information, we work hard to put matters right. We will ensure that no customer will lose out as a result of this."
A Capita spokesperson said:
"Following a change to HM Revenue & Customs' online PAYE portal, an incorrect update was made in processing information for members of the Mineworkers Pension scheme.

This issue has been resolved and all members affected will shortly receive letters to advise that they do not need to take any action.

We sincerely apologise for any concern and inconvenience this has caused."
Nothing to see here folks!

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Tuesday 13 March 2018

Good For Sir Ken!



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Monday 12 March 2018

RIP Sir Ken Dodd - The Man Who Beat HMRC


As reported by The Herald Scotland in 1989:
"Ken Dodd walked free from Liverpool Crown Court yesterday
after being acquitted on all eight charges in his tax fraud trial. 

Cheers broke out in the public gallery as the verdicts were announced
at the end of the 23-day trial. Mr Dodd reeled from side to side,
clutched the rail of the dock, looked upwards, then turned to the jury
and said: ''Thank-you.'' 

As the foreman delivered the last of the three remaining verdicts of
not guilty, the 61-year-old Ken Dodd gasped, smiled broadly, and
embraced his solicitor. 

The courtroom erupted, people in the public gallery leapt to their
feet waving their arms in the air and there was an outburst of cheering.

Mr Dodd's fiancee Anne Jones collapsed into the arms of a friend,
weeping with joy. Police handed a glass of water to Miss Jones, a former Bluebell dancer who shares the comedian's home in Thomas Lane, Knotty Ash, Liverpool. 

Then Mr Dodd appeared to break down in the dock, struggling to hold
back tears. He stepped shakily from the dock and was congratulated by
some of the public. 

Earlier the jury had returned verdicts of not guilty on the five other
charges."
The Diddy Man took on Goliath and won!

Oh, and here is the final two fingered gesture to HMRC from Sir Ken:


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Friday 9 March 2018

The BBC's Through The Looking Glass Tax Arrangements



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Wednesday 7 March 2018

The State's Pension Ponzi Scheme


This Is Money reports that savers in their 50s and 60s are paying up to £2,000 extra in taxes to boost their weekly retirement payouts. 

They say they are being led to believe they have gaps in their National Insurance records and that a one-off payment will give them a higher income for life.

However, many are then finding the payment makes no difference to their state pension at all. To add insult to injury they are then denied a refund by HMRC.

This Is Money's investigation reveals that HMRC has been forced to issue new guidance to staff over fears they have been wrongly rejecting refunds. 

They also found that HMRC has rebuffed taxpayers by saying they acquired 'bereavement benefits' through the payments, even though these have proved worthless.

The official websites detailing the Class 3 NI top-up scheme fail to warn savers when their payments won't make any difference to their payouts.

This raises the prospect that some of the estimated 12,000 people who top-up their state pension every year have lost out without realising, or have given up after repeatedly being denied a refund.

A spokesman for HMRC says it has received a 'few dozen' requests for a refund and all but one has been paid. New applicants should get a decision within 15 working days and a payment seven to ten working days after that.

HMRC refused to review all payments of Class 3 NI contributions:
"We're sorry some customers had to wait a little longer than we would like to get their money back."
The state is one big fucking Ponzi scheme!

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Tuesday 6 March 2018

HMRC Dudley Closure Up For Parliamentary Debate


The Express & Star reports that Dudley North MP Ian Austin has urged Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey to rethink proposals that have put the jobs at risk of 250 civil servants based at the HMRC’s tax credits office at the Waterfront in Brierley Hill, Dudley.

He has secured a parliamentary debate on the issue Wednesday evening.

He will be using the debate to call on ministers to look again at the decision, keep the Brierley Hill offices open and ensure the highly-skilled HMRC staff are used to assist with the introduction of Universal Credit.

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Friday 2 March 2018

Snow Stops Taxes

 

HMRC services during the cold weather

How this week's extreme weather is affecting some of our services.
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The adverse weather this week has been affecting our staff and contact centres across the country.
HMRC staff are working hard to keep as many services open as possible, but we have had to close some of our sites.

This means that waiting times on our phones lines may be longer than usual, and we have closed a small number of specialist phone lines.

We expect these services to be up and running again during the weekend and to be fully operational by the start of next week.

Our online services are still available, as is support through Twitter @HMRCcustomers and on Facebook.

Thank you for your continued patience.

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Thursday 1 March 2018

Scotland's Budget Further Complicates The Tax System


The Scottish Parliament has passed its Budget Bill for 2018/19, which introduces five tax bands and rates for Scottish taxpayers. These new rates will have knock-on effects for certain income tax reliefs and allowances.

Rebecca Cave has identified a particular complication wrt the marriage allowance:
"The marriage allowance is causing some headaches within HMRC, as it can only be claimed by couples where the higher earner pays no more than the basic rate of tax (rest of UK rate). However, for Scottish taxpayers the basic rate band will be divided into the starter rate (19%), basic rate (20%) and the intermediate rate (21%) in 2018/19.

It is likely that a claim for the marriage allowance will remain valid for all Scottish taxpayers who pay tax at less than the Scottish higher rate (41%), but that has yet to be decided."
Good luck to the taxpayers of Scotland and HMRC in sorting this out!


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