"Unrepresented taxpayers will not stand a chance under HMRC’s new penalty regime," according to Accountingweb.co.uk’s tax editor Nichola Ross Martin, after attending her institute's Tax Faculty’s London conference, The new HMRC powers and their effect on your practice. "Many accountants are in for a bit of a shock too."
She writes:
"It was an unhappy coincidence that shadow home secretary, David Davies happened to chose the same day to resign his parliamentary seat on account of “the insidious erosion of civil liberties in the UK”.
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