HMRC Issues Furlough Warning To Thousands

 

The Express reports that HMRC is writing to selected Coronavirus Jobs Retention Scheme (CJRS) claimants who HMRC thinks may have over claimed based on the information HMRC has.

HMRC acknowledged that mistakes happen, particularly during this challenging time.

HMRC will also write to around 3,000 selected employers a week, to ask them to check their claims.

Those who receive a letter may want to note some key dates.

HMRC says the deadline to notify HMRC is the latest of the following:

• 90 days of receiving the CJRS money they’re not entitled to
• 90 days of when circumstances changed so that they were no longer entitled to keep the CJRS grant
• October 20 2020 if they received CJRS money they’re not entitled to, or if their circumstances changed, on or before 22 July.

Good luck!

Tax does have to be taxing.

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HMRC Tries To Blame Others For Its Mistakes and Fails

 

A case where HMRC desperately tries to find someone to pay for their mistakes....and fails.https://t.co/O8QjVacLaT

— John Andrews (@jmalitrg) August 20, 2020

Conclusion

45.         HMRC did not go through the process required by Reg 75A and so had not created a deemed liability which could be collected using a Reg 80 determination.  It follows that the determination is invalid.

46.         As a result, in the exercise of my jurisdiction under TMA s 50(7), I decide that the Company has been “ overcharged by an assessment other than a self-assessment” and reduce the Reg 80 determination to nil.  The Company’s appeal is therefore allowed.

Tax does have to be taxing.

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HMRC Investigating 8,000 Furlough Fraud Reports

 

Birmingham Live reports that HMRC is probing 8,000 reports of furlough fraud and investigating firms across the UK.

University academics have reported as many as two-thirds of furloughed workers continued working throughout April and May of this year despite technically being on furlough.

Oxford, Zurich, and Cambridge experts claim that only 37% of furloughed workers in the UK reported doing no work at all for their employers during that time.

Tax does have to be taxing.

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IRONY KLAXON - MTD Planned Downtime and Service Issues!

Making Tax Digital for VAT: service availability and issues

Updated 18 August 2020

Contents

1. Service availability
2. Planned downtime
3. Service issues
4. Other services

Service availability

Full service available.

If you’re trying to create, sign in or reset your user ID or password, check for known problems with Government Gateway.

Sign up your own business

Sign up your client’s business

Sign up to Making Tax Digital for VAT

Sign in to Making Tax Digital for VAT online

Planned downtime

Saturday 22 August 2020 7:45pm to 4:30pm Monday 24 August 2020

Due to scheduled maintenance you will be unable to access our online service from 7:45pm on Saturday 22 August 2020 to 4:30pm on Monday 24 August 2020.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Service issues

VAT notice of assessment of tax

Some ‘VAT notice of assessment of tax’ letters recently sent to Making Tax Digital customers were issued in error.

If your business has already submitted the VAT return in question and paid the tax due or received its repayment, you can ignore this letter. You can check your position using your ‘HMRC online services’ and agents can check this on your behalf by using the ‘Manage your client’s details’ service.

Overseas businesses

If you’re unable to sign up an overseas business because you are being asked for information that only a UK based customer can give, contact the VAT helpline, giving the VAT registration numbers and business names so that HMRC can amend the customer record. This can take up to 14 days.

We’ve already amended the records of many overseas customers we’ve previously been told about and sign up for these customers should now be successful.

Other services

Check the availability and issues of other services.

Tax does have to be taxing.

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• Attend any meeting with HMRC
• Appeal to the First-tier Tribunal or Upper Tribunal
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• Premiums are Annual Premiums.
• Premiums are inclusive of 12% IPT. 
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• There is a NIL excess on all policies.

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Second SEISS Tranche Opens This Morning

 

Angela MacDonald, Deputy Chief Executive of HMRC, is quoted by the Express talking about the second tranche of SEISS:

"We are trying very hard to contact all of those people who are eligible in order to help them understand when they can make their claim.

Our claims window is initially open for a four-day period.

But if somebody thinks that they are eligible and they haven't been contacted by us, they can go onto the online system.

It will tell them if they're eligible and when it is that they can make their claim.

But people shouldn't worry about needing to do everything too much in a rush.

If you don't manage it in those first four days, the claim system is actually open until October 19.

So therefore everybody's got the time to do things that suit their working situation at the moment."

Tax does have to be taxing.

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• Attend any meeting with HMRC
• Appeal to the First-tier Tribunal or Upper Tribunal
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HMRC Did Well With SEISS

 

The Mirror reports that HMRC has miscalculated thousands of SEISS grants given to the self-employed to help them through the coronavirus crisis.

It seems that HMRC has overpaid approximately 16,200 grants ( 0.6% of the total).

HMRC has written to all those affected by the error which arose from “failing to take into account all relevant information when determining eligibility”.

They will not be asked to repay the funds, but should expect a lower sum should they make an application for a second grant.

Given the magnitude of the task, and speed with which it was enacted, I think an error rate of 0.6% is bloody good.

Kudos to HMRC on this one!

Tax does have to be taxing.

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A Solar Protect policy will enable your Accountant (your tax return agent) to:

• Deal with any correspondence from HMRC
• Attend any meeting with HMRC
• Appeal to the First-tier Tribunal or Upper Tribunal
• Having the security of knowing that fees will be met in full will enable your Accountant (your tax return agent) to defend your position robustly
• Premiums are Annual Premiums.
• Premiums are inclusive of 12% IPT. 
• Premiums and IPT are due in full in advance / at commencement of scheme.
• There is a NIL excess on all policies.

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