by David Jones | May 19, 2022 | Business Regulation, Business Start-up, Business Tax, Opinion, Payroll Services, Tax Investigations
Before I go into the detail of this case, I think it helpful if I explain exactly what long-firm fraud is. Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud, defines long-firm fraud as when dishonest individuals set up what’s an apparently legitimate...
by David Jones | Apr 21, 2022 | Business Regulation, Opinion, Payroll Services, Self Assessment, Tax Investigations
As there hasn’t been a lot happening in the world of tax or at HMRC over the last couple of weeks, I thought you might find some of the recent questions asked by clients and readers of the Blog, of interest and hopefully of some help. This week’s selection: Can I...
by David Jones | Apr 14, 2022 | Payroll Services, Personal Finance, Self Assessment, Tax Investigations
HMRC just cannot accept that their interpretation of the rules governing IR35, is not what the law actually says, as has been evidenced by a flurry of court decisions in recent weeks. First, we had Lorraine Kelly, best known for her eponymous programme on ITV...
by David Jones | Mar 31, 2022 | Business Tax, Opinion, Tax Investigations
If, like me, you’ve read the recent reports on tax debt by the National Audit Office (NAO) and the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), you may have concluded that HMRC has pretty much thrown in the towel on chasing/collecting tax debts. In November 2021, the NAO issued...
by David Jones | Mar 3, 2022 | Corona Virus, Opinion, Self Assessment, Tax Investigations
Just short of six billion pounds of public money has been incorrectly paid out by HMRC in their handling of coronavirus support payments; and to make matters worse they are predicting that they’ll only be able to recover around 25% of it, with the rest being lost to...
by David Jones | May 13, 2021 | Comments on Global News, Tax Investigations
Employers NIC Fraud An in-depth investigation by BBC Radio 4’s File on 4, has revealed that tens of thousands of individuals resident abroad have been recruited to front British companies as part of schemes costing the UK tax authorities hundreds of millions in...