Fines amnesty for late tax returns

Fines amnesty for late tax returns

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BBC Radio 4's Today programme, on Saturday morning, seemed to suggest that HMRC were going to "write off" late filing penalties, for almost 900,000 taxpayers.

As always the devil is in the detail and, a calmer, evidence based report, was in the Daily Telegraph, including the internal memo produced by HMRC.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/tax/11639907/Fines-amnesty-for-late-tax-returns.html

Having read the memo it seems to me that, for once, HMRC has approached this aspect of self-assessment in a responsible manner, particularly in the ongoing period of austerity?

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By norstar
03rd Jun 2015 14:37

But will they open the letter?!

I've had to write as HMRC wrongly issued a bunch of 2014 returns when a 2015 one was requested.

Yes they say they will cancel the pens if any reasonable excuse is claimed, but we're finding they aren't even opening the letter for over a month, by which time we've got Debt Management sticking their oar in and chasing the client.

Not ideal - would rather the system just worked...

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