Treasury Select Committee Rubbishes HMRC's Digital Revolution

The Treasury select committee has criticised HMRC’s plans to digitise tax on the basis of the cost burden it will place on business.

The committee notes that the project (which needs businesses to use prescribed software to file tax information quarterly) will add to their compliance costs and makes it ‘implausible’ that they will achieve the predicted administrative savings.

This is something that loyal readers already know, and have been trying to communicate to HMRC. In fact I understand that Troup is a zealot wrt the "digital revolution" and, when engaged with on the subject by a loyal reader, was not just deaf to her points that it will be costly and burdensome but talked over her as she tried to make her case.

The question is, has HMRC done a full impact assessment on the costs/benefits (to the taxpayers) of the digital project?

No, I don't think it has. In fact Andrew Tyrie (chairman of the committee) has asked the very same of Gauke in this letter.


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HMRC's £200M Giveaway

HMRC has put £200M up for grabs by one lucky desktop services supplier as it attempts a major overhaul of its IT systems.

HMRC is looking for end user devices, application performance monitoring and virtual desktop services.

The contract will include overseeing mobile devices, such as those provided by Blackberry, as well as the software and hardware underpinning managed desktop services and video-conferencing equipment.

The notice says:

"This contract covers a range of commodity services such as management and support of end user devices, application packaging and deployment, IMACD ['Install, Move, Add, Change and Decommission'], administrative infrastructure, remote access, application performance monitoring and virtual desktops, but also includes some requirements bespoke to HMRC."

The contract will begin in 2017 and end in 2020, with the possibility of a two-year extension.

The department "is currently undergoing a significant period of transformation" therefore some of the details of the programme will not be available until later in the tender process. The closing date is 24 May 2016.

Good luck to all those who apply.

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Tell ABAB HMRC Survey

The administrative burdens advisory board (ABAB) has released the results of its “Tell ABAB” facility which received more than 2,000 responses from business owners and accountants.

ABAB is an independent board that seeks to bring a business perspective to HMRC’s work.

AccountingWEB have summarised the results.

Once and done

Communicating with HMRC remains the biggest bugbear. However, the report identified two initiatives HMRC implemented to ameliorate the poor service levels. First, is a change of service philosophy to something HMRC is calling “The once & done project”.

“[It] has been developed to deliver process changes that allow Call Handlers to deal with more the first time around, reducing the need for you to write to HMRC, for HMRC to write to you, and for HMRC to ‘hand off’ questions between its own staff.”

HMRC will now implement a “phone first” policy, too. Phone first will allow HMRC staff members to phone you for clarification or additional information regarding the correspondence subject.

Up to 2,000 respondents also indicated a very strong desire to access other, non-traditional channels of communication.

Making Tax Digital was offered as a remedy for HMRC’s communication woes.

“It brings together access to all key online services, guidance and information providing a joined-up experience for you, giving you the ability to perform a number of transactions with HMRC in a single place.”

HMRC is apparently trialling a clutch of new digital communications, including “Web chat” for those with SA queries, a “virtual assistant” for the online services helpdesk, and a move from paper to “secure digital messaging via your digital tax account”.

Agent online self-serve

AOSS, according to HMRC, will revolutionise the way agents deal with them. The service is currently being beta tested by a select group of 1,500 accountants. But, according to the report, there’s an “intention to extend this group during the remainder of 2015/16”.

Other results

In ABAB’s survey results, respondents identified several other categories of particular strain when dealing with HMRC:

• Personalisation: “You want your tax affairs to be all in one place and for HMRC ‘departments’ to be much more joined-up. There is also a need to only receive what is relevant to you targeted to your specific business/circumstances.”
• Digital: “Those of you who are online want to do more online and have suggested ways to make specific tasks easier.”
• HMRC attitude and approach to small businesses: “You want HMRC to better understand the day to day pressures you face running your small business and to have more empathy when dealing with you.”
• Policy & legislation: “You want Government policies and legislation to be modernised and simplified, recognising the needs of small business so to encourage innovation and growth.”
• Processes & systems: “You want clearer guidance and greater consistency across specific services such as VAT, CIS.”
• Payments & refunds: “You want the mechanisms and policies for payments and refunds to work better for you and your business.”
• General admin burdens: “You want to spend less time on tax administration and to have greater consistency across different taxes to reduce the burden in running your business.”
• Working with agents: “You want agents to be able to deal with HMRC on behalf of your business more easily.”

All these initiatives sound very jolly. The question is, will they work, and will they be properly implemented?

As ever, please feel free to share your views and opinions.

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A Tad Phishy

Oh dear this scammer really needs to up his/her game, even the spelling is off key!

Dear taxpayer,

Hello *******, I am sending this email to announce that after the last annual calculation of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax return of £275.49. In order to receive your refund, you need to create a Government Gateway account.

Refund #5964327489

Issuing Date: Wednesday, April 20 , 2016 Expiration Date: Thursday, April 21 , 2016 Receiver: ********** Payment Method: Electronically by Card Refundable Ammount : £275.49

If you don't create a government gateway account, you will not receive your refund.
This email was sent from a notification-only address that cannot accept incoming email. Please do not reply to this message.
This is an automated email sent to *******. If you already claimed your tax return , please ignore this email.
Crown Copyright

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Blair Got Advice From Hartnett

As loyal readers know, HMRC is keen to promote its "customer friendly" credentials and is often at pains to point out that taxpayers (sorry "customers") can get in touch with HMRC to discuss their tax queries etc.

Well it seems that HMRC are not kidding, that is at least the case for ex Prime Ministers anyway.

It appears according to reports in the Times that Tony Blair, when he left office, was granted (or at least his advisers were granted) an audience with Dave Hartnett.

For why?

Blair wanted to arrange the most tax efficient structure for some form of offshore trust that would handle his "consultancy" income from various foreign organisations/governments. Reporters were told that Blair uses an interest-in-possession (IIP) trust to receive payments from his consultancy work

Economia reports that MPs are expected to write to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to call for an investigation into “special treatment of high-profile individuals by HMRC”.

The question is, if you or I had asked for an audience with Hartnett would we have received the same treatment that Blair got?

Oh and by the way, re yesterday's article about HMRC's consultation on a new offence aimed at businesses which fail to prevent tax evasion.

Will that apply to HMRC as well?


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HMRC Consultation On Evasion

HMRC has opened a consultation on a new offence aimed at businesses which fail to prevent tax evasion.

The consultation, entitled Tackling tax evasion: a new corporate offence of failure to prevent the criminal facilitation of tax evasion, concerns draft legislation published last December, which would introduce a new offence for corporates that fail to take adequate measures to prevent those working on their behalf from committing, or helping to commit, tax evasion.

The planned offence will cover both UK and overseas tax evasion.

HMRC is of the view that current legislation places too high a burden of proof on prosecutors to be able to punish companies for tax evasion carried out by somebody who is working for them. The proposed legislation aims to overcome this by pushing more responsibility onto the board and encouraging internal checks and reporting. 

The consultation will run until 10 July.

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PAC Frets About HMRC's Performance

Members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) are fretting about HMRC's performance, and yesterday said that taxpayers were missing out on £16bn a year, as a result of evasion and criminal activity.

Where do they get that figure from?

Anyhoo, accuracy of figures aside, PAC said that HMRC needed to increase the number of investigations, and prosecute more wealthy tax evaders.

Fear not HMRC (which claims to be one of the most effective tax collectors in the world) has,as loyal readers know, a cunning plan.

It is allowing its experienced staff, with decades of service and knowledge, to leave whilst replacing them with unskilled individuals who will person the phones!

What could possibly go wrong?

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HMRC Comes Last in Civil Service People Survey

The 2015 Civil Service People Survey reveals that only 25% to HMRC staff believe that HMRC is “managed well”.

Additionally only 34% thought senior managers’ behaviour was consistent with the organisation’s values.Only 32% thought it was “safe to challenge the way things are done”, suggesting a climate far from conducive to whistle-blowing. Meanwhile, just 35% thought the board had a clear vision.

At 45% HMRC is the lowest-scoring government department when it comes to the “engagement” of its staff.

HMRC is quoted by the FT:

“With a 65 per cent response rate it is clear that more people in HMRC are sharing their views, but we recognise we still have work to do.

Over the last five years our Civil Service People Survey scores have generally improved on staff engagement, satisfaction with leadership, change management and training. We listen to the feedback of our workforce because we know there is more we can do.
Encouragingly, the 2015 survey showed positive feedback on the department’s vision for the future and the opportunities available for staff to develop their careers within HMRC.”

That means that 35% of HMRC staff couldn't be arsed to fill in the survey!

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Unfarkingbelievable!

Just spoken to HMRC Compliance Centre & the person who answered didn't know what a P60 was! Thanks Brown & Gidiot for HMRC's state. #tax

— Stuart Jones (@StuartJones) April 12, 2016

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Question For Our Political Masters

Would it be a good idea for MPs to make statements of assets & liabilities. Like we plebs can be required to do by HMRC. #MakingMischief

— Andrew Brooks (@taxbod) April 11, 2016

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Troup's Offshore Dalliance

As the political and media hoo-hah continues over offshoring, and the related tax implications, it appears that neither HMRC nor the Guardian have a sense of irony over the facts that HMRC's property management company is Mapeley (which has an offshore presence) and that the Guardian has itself used (maybe still uses) an offshore vehicle.

Anyhoo, that aside the media (eg the Guardian) reports today that:

"The boss of Revenue & Customs (HMRC), the government department overseeing a £10m inquiry into the Panama Papers, was a partner at a top City law firm that acted for Blairmore Holdings and other offshore companies named in the leak.

Edward Troup, executive chair of HMRC since April, is a former partner at Simmons & Simmons, whose clients have included the Panama-registered fund created by David Cameron’s father, Ian."

Whoever said that HMRC doesn't do irony?

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Cameron's Moral Outrage

In June 2012 I wrote about the howls of moral outrage emanating from David Cameron about Jimmy Carr's tax avoidance scheme.

Cameron boldly proclaimed to the world that Jimmy Carr's tax arrangement "isn't morally right". 

I also noted:

"I would also remind the Prime Minister that raising a hue and cry over tax avoidance (eg in the form of the investigation of civil servants on off payroll schemes) is all very well, but what happens when your proud boasts to end these schemes come to nowt?.....

...Cameron has got himself well and truly stuck on top of the Savage Mountain (aka K2), not only will his "promises" to deal with these schemes come to nowt, but he has effectively declared open season on every Tory MP, every Tory candidate and every Tory donor. The media and other interested parties will pore over their finances with a fine tooth-comb, and one by one every single tax avoidance scheme (that the PM finds "immoral") will be made public (I guarantee there are hundreds of Tory MPs and Tory donors etc using these such schemes).
Cameron has lost touch with reality, in a desperate attempt to grab a soundbite and pander to the anti avoidance lobby.
To repeat what I said yesterday:

"Avoidance is a perfectly normal human thing to try to do, the politicians are not in a position to lecture the rest of us on "morality."

A politician lecturing us on morality is as natural as a cat walking on its hind legs."

In July 2012 I wrote:

"David Gauke said that the government will name and shame wealthy people who use "aggressive" tax avoidance schemes. Gauke went on to say that companies offering such products will be forced to hand over details of their clients."

Fast forward to 2016, and it transpires that Cameron had a modest holding in an offshore fund (set up by his father) which he sold in 2010. 

Now of course there is nothing illegal in that. However, to have spent some years venting his spleen against tax avoidance makes him look a tad hypocritical does it not?

As I have noted on several occasions on this site, politicians who rage against tax avoidance will one day find that their public moralising will come back to bite them on their arses; as a politician lecturing us on morality is as natural as a cat walking on its hind legs!

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Plans For Quarterly Tax Returns Rubbished

In a report published on 5 April, the Administrative Burdens Advisory Board (ABAB) has warned that the plans announced by George Osborne to introduce a new digital tax system for the self-employed (including mandatory quarterly updates) would create a significant added burden in terms of accounting records and costs for SMEs.

Quoted by the Guardian:

“Compulsory digital record-keeping and quarterly online updates is not an approach we can endorse.

We are concerned that the proposals for quarterly updates will be more burdensome than they currently are with increased record-keeping and compliance costs. This will have a big impact on the smallest of businesses.”

The Federation of Small Businesses doesn't think much of the idea either.

Mike Cherry, national chairman, said:

“Forcing small firms to pay for expensive digital accounting software so they must submit extra tax returns is not going to help anyone. It will simply add to the cost of doing business in the UK. When every independent body and expert is lining up to tell you to stop, slow down and think again, it might be time to take a breather and listen to their concerns.”

A spokesperson from HMRC said:

“We are focussed on creating a tax system that is more effective, more efficient and easier for taxpayers and we will work closely with stakeholders to address their concerns. 99% of businesses already file their corporation tax online and 98% of VAT returns are filed online. 

The new digital accounts, which are not being introduced until 2018, will simply integrate the different information businesses already provide to HMRC into a simpler, streamlined system. This will reduce the burden of updating HMRC for small businesses.”

Let's see how that works out in reality then!

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Happy New Tax Year!

 

Happy New Tax Year everyone!

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HMRC To Enter EU Referendum Campaign

Having been pressured by the Treasury Select Committee, HMRC will reveal the number of EU migrants working in the UK. The figures, in theory, will be presented towards the end of April.

The data will identify how many National Insurance numbers are actively being used by people from the European Economic Area (EEA), how many have paid national insurance contributions or PAYE income tax or have claimed any HMRC administrated tax credit or benefits.

Economia reports that ONS figures have shown that 904,000 EU nationals moved to UK in the last five years, but 2.25 million NI numbers were issued during this period. This is a gap of 1.3 million EU migrants living in the UK.

HMRC will need to be careful that it is not drawn into the spat between the "In and Out" factions in the EU referendum debate.

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Going Postal

My thanks to a loyal reader who alerted me to a wee discussion on AccountingWeb about HMRC postal delays:

"I sent a letter to HMRC, PO Box 168, Bootle four weeks ago and a copy of the original letter about ten days ago.

Neither have appeared on the HMRC "system" yet.

Is there a delay between receiving the letter and scanning it? If so, does anyone know how long the delay is please?"

Methinks the Surge Teams are going to have a busy summer!

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