HMRC fiasco re CIS online

HMRC fiasco re CIS online

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A client has today received a notice of penalty determination for the first CIS monthly return. This is despite the fact that client filed online & it shows up on the CIS part of the HMRC website as filed on time & client got email at the time to say the return had been safely received.
Client phoned up HMRC immediately - response was that client has to write in & appeal.
Is this going to happen every month???
A Wells

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By User deleted
29th Jun 2007 10:51

Agreed
It wasn't a penalty determination, but it would have been had it been issued after October and I can't think of any reason why things will be better by then. It took them 9 months to issue the penalties for 2005/06 penalties for late P11ds, why on earth does anyone think they will cope with monthly returns.
It upset my client and caused me extra work - so nothing new there then!

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By User deleted
29th Jun 2007 11:22

Lost in Edinburgh tax office for nearly a month
It now transpires this was the annual return - due by the same date as the monthly return. Annual return was sent by guaranteed next day delivery &, according to Royal Mail, was accepted at the tax office on 16 May. According to the penalty notice, it wasn't logged as received until 8 June.
This confirms what I've thought for a while - it is essential to send anything to the tax office in the mail by recorded or similar delivery in order to get confirmation of when it was actually received.

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By User deleted
29th Jun 2007 06:52

my client got a penalty notice for a form sent in by post. When I rang to check out, they said they had now got it. What fun this is all going to be....

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By stephenkendrew
29th Jun 2007 07:11

penalty determination??
are you sure it was a penalty determination?? HMRC are not charging penalties until October.

I do know HMRC has issued letters saying the return was late but they are not charging a penalty yet - and these have been issued to several of my clients even though the returns were on time.

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