Whither Verify?

 

When HMRC recently ended its support for Verify, it came as an unwelcome surprise for thousands of taxpayers facing imminent deadlines or the urgent need to apply for rebates online, when they found themselves locked out and unable to sign in to HMRC’s services.

Services you can no longer use with GOV.UK Verify

From April 2022 the following services will use their own identity verification instead of GOV.UK Verify:

• Check your Income Tax for the current year (HMRC)
• Help friends or family with their tax (HMRC)
• Sign in and file your Self Assessment tax return (HMRC)
• Sign in to your personal tax account (HMRC)
• Apply for Universal Credit with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
• Check your State Pension (DWP and HMRC)
• Get your State Pension (DWP)
• View or share your driving licence information (DVLA)
• Report a medical condition that affects your driving (DVLA)
• Renew your short-term medical driving licence (DVLA)

Having been barred from the tax account they previously accessed using Verify, these users have found themselves unable to provide the documentation required to regain access to HMRC services online. 

Unfortunately, it seems that some staff at the HMRC call centre assigned to deal with such issues don’t appear to be aware of the demise of Verify and of its implications.

Bill Mew in Accounting Web issues a cri de coeur

HMRC may learn from this experience, make allowances for those that have been inconvenienced, help those more seriously impacted and ensure that this kind of thing never happens again.

Will HMRC learn?

Tax does have to be taxing.

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HMRC is Insane - A Litany of Failure

 

AccountingWeb hits the nail on the head in its damning indictment of HMRC's vendetta against Smith & Williamson.

The Supreme Court’s judgement on the Smith & Williamson (EBT) case (2022 UKSC 9) offers disturbing hints of illogical, if not insane, thinking within HMRC.

There is a saying that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. This is the repeated pattern of HMRC’s appeals in this case:

• May 2017: First-tier tribunal (FTT) hearing, HMRC lost.
• February 2019: HMRC appealed to the Upper Tribunal (UT), and lost.
• March 2020: HMRC appealed to the Court of Appeal (CA) and failed, for the same reasons as it had in the previous hearings.
• February 2022: HMRC appealed to the Supreme Court, and failed again. 

The justices of the Supreme Court unanimously agreed with three successive judgements that HMRC’s arguments were simply wrong.

This case has little practical effect, since the 2013 changes mean that its circumstances cannot recur. Its primary outcome is to highlight the bloody-minded determination that HMRC so often appears to exhibit when pushing a weak case in pursuit of a sizeable chunk of tax.

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HMRC Languishes Towards The Bottom of The Roll Call of Shame

Cab Off name and shame departments struggling to get workforce back in.

Going to be regular thing.. can’t help but notice those blighted by cock ups are at lower end of table - eg FCDO, DFE + HO - while better run like DHSC , DIT + MoD are up top.

Beis not setting good Eg. pic.twitter.com/VQf24wKTmF

— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) April 19, 2022

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Tax Year End Tax Tips

The new tax year is fast approaching here is a few last minute tax tips:

Top up your pension
Tax free dividends
Utilise any unused ISA or JISA allowances
Annual exemption for capital gains
Gifts utilising annual gift allowance#taxtips #taxtalk

— Danny Baker (@DannyBakerTax) April 1, 2022

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