New Self Assessment Penalties

HMRC have recently issued guidance on the new penalty regieme for late Self Assessment returns.You can see it here:The new penalty regieme starts from this month, April 2011, and increases the penalties for late returns significantly:The penalties for filing your tax...

CIS Penalties

Theres a tax case report in one of our professional journals this week, Lewis v CRC.Its a simple case – a contractor took on a subcontractor, and initally ignored the CIS rules regarding monthly returns. The contract with the subcontractor run from May 2007 to...

Proportionality of tax penalties

Taxation this week carries an interesting article on a recent tax case, SKG (London) Ltd (TC282). http://www.taxation.co.uk/taxation/articles/2010/01/12/19804/disproportionate-penalty The company was unaware of the requirement to operate CIS – it previously had...