Carry On Taxing!

A recorded message on the HMRC helpline says that nothing has changed in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote.

The HMRC message says:

"There are no changes to any taxes, tax credits, child benefits or other HMRC services as a result of the vote on the EU referendum.

Everything is continuing as normal. No laws have changed. There is no need to contact HMRC as a result of the EU referendum."

Carry on taxing!


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Tax Post Brexit

I take it that during the post brexit period of confusion, chaos and political meltdown we all get a tax holiday?😏

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EU Country Sells To Customers In Another EU Country - Shock Horror Probe!

Microsoft has reportedly avoided up to £100m a year in UK corporation tax by allegedly "routing" its sales through Ireland.

The corporation has sent more than £8bn of revenues from computers and software, bought by British customers, to Ireland since 2011 as part of a deal with HMRC the Sunday Times reports.


The arrangements, known as advance pricing agreements, agree on the allocation of profit between various countries.

HMRC approved Microsoft's offshore structure in 2012, in a deal which runs from 2011 to 2017.

At this point it is worth remembering that, as part of the EU, an Irish company has every right to sell to UK customers.

A spokesperson for HMRC is quoted by the Independent:

“No company will pay a single penny less in tax because of Advance Payments Agreements.

These simply set out how the tax rules will apply on complex transactions ahead of time and we keep them under constant review.”

Thus the discussion begins..... 

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Sympathies To Sharron Sheridan

My sympathies to Sharron Sheridan, a self-employed mother, who has had a wee bit of a hard time claiming tax credits.

In fact, according to the Mail, she has been left on the breadline after waiting five and a half months for her tax credits claim to be processed.

For why?

Seemingly HMRC is of the view that she is dead.

When speaking to an HMRC advisor, Ms Sheridan was told that the deceased box was ticked but no date of death had been entered.

An HMRC spokesman said:

'We do not comment on identifiable tax credits claimants. 

'When we make an error we apologise and put things right, reinstating the award at the earliest opportunity and backdating the payments if appropriate."

HMRC already has form on this type of cock up, eg in 2015 HMRC was of the view that Peter Moore was dead.

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HMRC Wants To Predict The Future

HMRC has tendered for a technology partner to provide a system that can use predictive analytics to identify areas of insolvency risk. The contract value is £5M.

The system will be used to ensure HMRC gets the tax it is owed by companies by alerting HMRC if a firm is at risk from insolvency.

"The analytics solution, therefore, will need to be sufficiently flexible for HMRC to adjust or rebuild it to retain its functionality after changes to HMRC's IT infrastructure."

Good luck with that then!

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You Pay Peanuts You Get Monkeys

As loyal readers know, HMRC is doing away with its Aspire contract in favour of shorter contracts with a wider range of suppliers.

In order to ensure a smooth transition from the contract, HMRC has set up a new government-owned company called Revenue and Customs Digital Technology Service (RCDTS). Its purpose is to directly employ private sector contractors who had been working for Capgemini.

However, there is a fly in the oinkment for those who switch from private to public; as there is an ongoing Treasury policy of limiting all annual payrises across the public sector to 1% until at least 2020.

This is ironic as Dearnley told PAC this week that the new company had been set up specifically to provide "a better employment offer for the staff coming in from the private sector", including better base pay and pensions than could be expected as direct employees of HMRC.

However, he is quoted by Public Technology:

"It is limited by the pay cap.

But it does have a different salary scale and remuneration structure, so in that, we've been able to put together what we believe is a much more appropriate offer for people coming in from the private sector."

Adding:

"I'm sure this will be an ongoing topic of conversation with the Treasury over the next few years."

In other words this deal hasn't been agreed/signed off by the Treasury!

Seemingly more than a quarter of the private contractors, eligible for transfer into the civil service, have chosen not to do so.

"This was them making a personal choice that they either wanted a career somewhere else or they found a different job with a current employer, or it was their moment to retire or go off to do something different. 

That level of attrition that we saw was actually lower than we expected – but in line with the industry standard."

Maybe the civil service and the government needs to rethink how it rewards and retains people?

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Security Matters

Because a work colleague read me a clients ref. no. HMRC told me I failed security. Reason = I have to know the number I can't be prompted.

— Stuart Jones (@StuartJones) June 13, 2016

Is HMRC taking the piss here?

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Manners Maketh Man - Thank You For Paying Your tax

Never let it be said that HMRC is not a well mannered organisation, for it transpires that HMRC has started to send thank you letters to taxpayers who pay their tax on time.

The initiative is based on Australian tax etiquette, where taxpayers receive automatic thank you letters acknowledging the tax that has been paid.

This is all very nice, maybe, expect that according to the Telegraph taxpayers spent 4 million hours on the phone last year to HMRC. Therefore maybe not every taxpayer will be that impressed with this diversion of attention and resources.

Anyhoo Ruth Owen, HMRC's Director General for Customer Service, told PAC that trials of the 'thank you' letters had started in recent weeks:

"testing that with customers now to see what customers think about that”. 

There's the "C" word again!

Apparently results will be available within weeks.

Please feel free to give your views on these thank you notes.

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HMRC May Miss Aspire Deadline

The National Audit Office has recently published a memorandum into HMRC's progress wrt Replacing the Aspire Contract. Rather unhelpfully it does not present any conclusions. However it does present a list of the risks faced by HMRC in replacing Aspire.

Unsurprisingly HMRC is at risk of not being able to complete the switch-over of its Aspire contract in time, while HMRC’s internal IT organisation and revenue & custom’s Digital Technology Services may fail to work together productively.

It was ever thus!

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HMRC Doesn't Know The Tax Year End

The FT reports an interesting tribunal ruling in a taxpayer's favour who avoided £653K in tax.

The tribunal ruled that HMRC made a "fatal" error wrt tax dates, by describing a tax year “ending 6 April 2009”; thus invalidating the enquiry notice.

Jane Bailey, the tribunal judge, said HMRC had stated an intention “to enquire into a tax return for a year which did not exist”.

The case involved a taxpayer who took part in a tax avoidance scheme in the year to April 2009. HMRC wrote to him in 2011 to say his return was under inquiry, in a letter that used the disputed date.

The taxpayer argued the mistake about the date was fatal to HMRC’s case, even when there could be no reasonable doubt as to which year was intended.

HMRC argued that it was clear to the taxpayer which return was under inquiry. It also said the date “was only one day out, it did not mention the wrong year”.

The tribunal said conditions for its application were not met. As a result, HMRC has run out of time to challenge the taxpayer’s 2009 tax return. He is set to pay £653,000 less than the amount claimed by HMRC if it succeeded in showing the tax avoidance scheme was ineffective.

HMRC, avoiding any mention of the fact it cocked this up, said:

“We are disappointed with the tribunal’s decision and are considering whether to appeal. HMRC wins around 80 per cent of avoidance cases that are taken to litigation by the taxpayer and many more settle with us before reaching that stage. 

We protected over £1bn in April this year alone. We tackle avoidance wherever we see it and litigate where necessary to ensure schemes are defeated and the tax due is paid.”

Given that HMRC insist taxpayers adhere to the rules, it is only reasonable to expect them to do likewise.


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HMRC's Digital Future - Microfiche

A story that is worthy of a huge snort of derision, I see that HMRC has been forced to “scour the internet” for spare parts for decrepit microfiche readers in order to try to cut delays in providing employment histories for people's compensation claims.

Jon Thompson, who faced the Treasury Select Committee yesterday, told the committee that most of the pre-1970s records were on microfiche, but there were a dwindling number of operational machines left to access them.

The Labour committee member John Mann said the wait had reached 383 days and was a significant problem for groups such as those affected by exposure to asbestos – or their widows.

Individuals are able to request their employment history if they are making a compensation claim for an industrial injury, a road accident, medical negligence or hardship – such as claiming through a benevolent fund or charity.

Seemingly HMRC has only 36 operational microfiche machines and even those break down frequently, sparking hunts for rare replacement parts or engineers with the skills to fit them.

Thompson is quoted by the Guardian:

“We do recognise that it is a problem for us. We visited Newcastle last Friday where this work takes place.

The records are essentially people’s national insurance records, which identify their employer and allow them to open up potential insurance claims against their employer for previous histories. The challenge we have is that these records go back several decades to when records were kept in a very different way. The majority of these records from before the mid-1970s are on microfiche.

 The microfiche records from the 1940s and 1950s are very hard to access but we need to think about what we can do. The machines necessary to identify the issue aren’t made any more. We need to scour various parts of the internet to repair the machines in order to be able to provide the service.”

I thought that part of HMRC's digital vision was to transfer old records into digital databases?

That being said, surely NI records etc (wrt compensation claims) are DWP responsibility?

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The Troup and Thompson Show

It's showtime folks!

New HMRC permanent secretaries, Troup and Thompson, up before Treasury Committee this afternoon

— Judith Freedman (@JudithFreedman) June 8, 2016

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HMRC's Plans For The Future - A Boot Stamping On a Human Face Forever

This sentence appears in HMRC’s “Single departmental plan” for 2015‑20:

“We will raise an additional £5bn a year by 2019‑20 by tackling tax avoidance and tax planning, evasion and compliance, and by addressing imbalances in the tax system.”

Thus it would seem that avoidance, which is perfectly legal, will become "illegal" in the eyes of HMRC. In fact, even the very attempt to plan your tax affairs will seemingly incur the wrath of HMRC.

George Bull, of RSM, is quoted by the Telegraph:

“Most of the tax planning we see involves individuals and companies doing no more than claiming the tax reliefs to which they are entitled, for purposes specifically intended by Parliament. 

An attack on routine tax planning would be a major shift in HMRC’s approach and would seem to pit the administration (in the form of HMRC) against the legislature (Parliament), which has enacted specific legislation for specific purposes.

If the plain words of the HMRC single departmental plan are to be taken at face value, it looks as though we can expect a seismic shift in the way taxes are dealt with in the UK.” 

HMRC appears to be getting ideas above its station, and needs to be slapped down!

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HMRC Withdraws APNs

As a result of a judicial review, lodged by law firm RPC, HMRC has withdrawn hundreds of accelerated payment notices (APNs). APNs have not been flavour of the month with taxpayers, as APNs enable HMRC to demand tax it believes it is owed before the dispute is adjudicated. Those affected only have 90 days to pay the sum, and have no right of appeal.

Unsurprisingly, giving HMRC such powers has resulted in many cock ups. Earlier this year, HMRC backtracked 2,000 APNs because conditions for their issuing were not satisfied.

RPC challenged HMRC on a number of grounds, including that the Employee Benefit Trust arrangements under consideration were not "notifiable" to the Revenue under the DOTAS regime. The firm said HMRC has now admitted that it did not have the right to issue the APNs related to those arrangements.

Adam Craggs, partner and head of tax disputes at RPC, is quoted by economia:

“HMRC’s policy of issuing accelerated payment notices seems to be ‘shoot first and ask questions later'.

It is regrettable that the taxpayers concerned were put to the inconvenience and expense of having to commence judicial review proceedings before HMRC acknowledged that the APNs were unlawful."

An HMRC spokesperson said:

“We don’t comment on individual cases. There is no mass withdrawal of APNs. We have withdrawn accelerated payment notices from schemes where their promoters brought them to our attention when they did not legally have to. We have issued over 50,000 such notices and collected over £2.5billion for the UK.

Just because a notice has been withdrawn it doesn’t mean there is no tax to pay. The underlying tax dispute remains until it is settled or taken to court.”

Mr Craggs intimates that HMRC is talking bollocks:

"HMRC appear to be issuing APNs on an industrial scale with little consideration to the constraints contained within the legislation.

There were repeated warnings from many in the tax profession when the Accelerated Payment Notices legislation was announced that there were insufficient safeguards for taxpayers and the lack of independent judicial scrutiny was a concern to many.

As this case demonstrates, any taxpayer in receipt of an Accelerated Payment Notice should not assume that HMRC has followed the correct internal processes and exercised its powers lawfully.”

As noted above, if you give an organisation power to demand money upfront with little or no checks and balances that organisation will misuse that power.


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Happy Tax Freedom Day!

Celebrate #taxfreedomday with us and @ASI ! https://t.co/6hrZS3x6CM pic.twitter.com/GinmamlMRz

— TaxPayers' Alliance (@the_tpa) June 3, 2016

It has taken 153 days of 2016 for UK residents to earn enough money to solely pay all of their taxes. That is three days later than Tax Freedom Day in 2015!
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The Benefits of Digital

.@hmrcgovuk's Toni Clark talking about HMRC going #digital and the benefits at #ICASpractitioners' Conference pic.twitter.com/eFQowslZeu

— ICAS (@ICASaccounting) June 2, 2016

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HMRC Shows Signs of Desperation

A loyal reader advises me that HMRC staff were "out and about" in the Livingston shopping centre the other day, handing out job application forms to shoppers for vacancies in their call centres.

Seemingly a 68 year old friend of the loyal reader was handed one, and asked if he would consider working for them.

Whilst it is admirable that HMRC is not ageist, this scatter gun approach does indicate that HMRC is a tad desperate.

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