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Budget 2015

by Jessica Garbett | Mar 18, 2015 | budget, fairness, HMRC, IR35, personal taxatation, politics

A quick round up of some highlights from the detail of todays budget speech. Our budget newsletter will be emailed tomorrow with some of the other headlines that are well reported in the media, and are mainly post election give aways – jam tomorrow. This continues...

HMRC Direct Recovery Powers – sign the petition

by Jessica Garbett | Aug 21, 2014 | fairness

You may have heard that there are proposals out from Government / HMRC to grant HMRC a so called “direct recovery” power. In essence this would allow HMRC to debit a tax payers bank account for any unpaid tax arrears, without oversight or prior notice. There would be...

Sting in the tail of recent RTI pilot

by Jessica Garbett | Jul 4, 2013 | ACCA, employer returns, fairness

If you took part in the RTI pilot you may be in for a shock. HMRC has announced it will ‘shortly begin issuing the equivalent of a P35 Interim Penalty Warning Letter to those employers who have not submitted: a Full Payment Submission (FPS) or Employer Payment...

Drawing the line

by Jessica Garbett | Jul 30, 2012 | business taxation, enquiries and tax disputes, fairness, HMRC, personal taxatation

Theres been a lot of media interest, excitement even, in issues around tax avoidance and evasion recently. Where is the line drawn? Many people know the basic principle that tax avoidance is legal and tax evasion is illegal, but what are the definitions, and how do...

Irony – HMRC accounts fail

by Jessica Garbett | Jul 4, 2012 | fairness, HMRC, musings, politics

For anyone who has been on the end of HMRC investigations, enquiries or scrutiny by a holier-than-thou taxman, irony is provided by The National Audit Office qualifying HMRCs accounts again – for the 12th time:...

Barclays Bank and 1% Corporation Tax

by Jessica Garbett | Feb 21, 2011 | business taxation, fairness, politics, press

Over the weekend Barclays bank and its 1% Corporation Tax charge has been hot news.To be honest, I was tempted to ring up their accountants and join up myself – after all money is money, and I know when I’m out classed in the tax savings wheezes...

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Budget 2015

HMRC Direct Recovery Powers – sign the petition

Sting in the tail of recent RTI pilot

Drawing the line

Irony – HMRC accounts fail

Barclays Bank and 1% Corporation Tax

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