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HMRC’s ‘digital by default’ strategy

HMRC’s ‘digital by default’ strategy

As our ‘wonderful’ tax authority continues with its “digital by default” approach, more and more problems have emerged highlighting a number of fundamental flaws in its approach to move all of its services online. So today I’m looking at which resources should be...
Your tax needs to be paid twice!

Your tax needs to be paid twice!

It emerged recently, that HMRC had effectively asked thousands of taxpayers to pay the same tax bill twice, after the tax office issued paper copies of tax assessments that had already been paid. Regrettably though, these paper copies did not indicate anywhere on them...
HMRC tries to scrap paper tax returns

HMRC tries to scrap paper tax returns

In the latest tax notice to accountants, HMRC announced that it had bowed to pressure from the various accountancy bodies, the FSB (Federation of Small Businesses), Age Concern and various other bodies, that it had decided not to scrap paper tax returns. A victory for...