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I've no confidence whatsover in HMRC
Giving HMRC more powers just means some unfortunate honest business people are going to be caned unnecessarily. The big bad boys will be allowed to get away with it because they are more frightening to deal with and they have worked out more options to hide behind.
No attention is given to the accountancy profession's continued representations about the effect of the mismanagement of HMRC. This is supposed to be a democracy, but it's gradually becoming an unmanaged bureaucratic nightmare with no real powers of complaint for the citizen.
APN under DOTAS
What surprised and concerned me is the changes allowing for an APN to be used for an agreement disclosed under DOTAS - it seems that the DOTAS scheme is being twisted into something it was not intended for. The end result will be to push avoidance schemes underground, finding reasons not to declare.
Petition Link
Is there any chance of a link to this petition being made available to other professional institutions?
on this years tax return you cannot side step the question of
a bank account , you either have to say you have no bank account or you have to give them detail and thats even if you arent entitled to a refund, we all no where this underhand approach is going
BIG BROTHER
In my opinion a lot of these unhelpful changes in legislation are nothing more than an expedient method of compensating for the increasingly poor standard H M Revenue and Customs staff. I do not believe that this trend is likely to reverse at any time soon.
DRD Petition
For a wider circulation of the petition I suggest that (if acceptable) the 38 degrees.org have a record of rapidly obtaining large numbers of signatures and therefore could be a useful avenue towards achieving the 100,000 signature target.
DRD Direct Recovery of Debts,
Many years ago I was subjected to bullying tactics by HMRC when they decided to claim £10,000 tax, which they claimed was owed on earnings I was supposed to have got. My argument that the claim was a figment of the imagination of the revenue officers cut no ice. I was supposed to prove that I had not earned an amount to justify the tax. How do you prove a negative? My investigations revealed that my National Insurance number that I had all my life was not mine but was registered to a woman in South Wales. So my argument to the tax commissioners was this; how did the revenue decide on tax I owed when they had no idea who I was? The commissioners told the 2 officers to sort out the problem and send a report to the commissioners and a copy to myself. The 2 officers were forced to come to my home six times on consecutive Saturday mornings and still they never sorted it out and never sent me a report and, as far as I am aware, they never sent a report to the commissioners. One of the officers was transferred from Grantham to Wick, the most northerly tax area office, think of that what you will. The problem with DRD as I see it, the revenue can claim any amount of tax they dream up and it is up to the tax payer to prove they do not owe it, too late when they bankrupt the taxpayer and take their property.
Hmrc debt recovery would be a joke if it were not so serious. I have a client who has paid every bill as soon as he receives it, being chased by a debt recovery agent, Rossendales, for a debt which was on his account for a couple of weeks relating to an erroneous 2012-13 return that he had filled in himself and has by mistake tickled the box saying he did not need to pay NICS. Rossendales threaten bailiffs, I write to hmrc and Rossendales showing the outstanding amount is £ 12 interest, hmrc confirm it is, Rossendales confirm I have authority to deal with the case and invite me to spend hours talking to them! We accountants are increasingly having to spend hours dealing with hmrc errors and these seem to be targeted at SME's.
Its the little guy that cops it.
I feel sorry for the little guy who gets dragged through the mill, whilst the big firms ride rough shot over any legislation.
Extract Daily mail
What IS the taxman doing? Despite outrage at big firms not paying their way the amount of uncollected tax rises to £35BILLION
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2454179/Amount-uncollected-tax-rises-35BILLION.html#ixzz3GUKjLsa1
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It is the Court System which is the undelying problem.
By stopping using the County Court collect debts - First the Child support Agency and now HMRC- the Government is admitting the Court system is not fit for purpose. Having tried myself to collect debts via the County Court and failed due the delays, failures in the system and general desire to help the little man being persued by 'big business' I do not blame the Government trying other means. However would it not be better to improve the Courts for everyone's benefit rather than give the Government their own debt collection system?
The main problem
with all this is that technology is increasing so information coming out is increasing. as there are no bodies to deal with it, shortcuts are the "soup of the day". As HMRC are not preferential creditors I cannot see how DRD can be legal - oh that's right HMRC can side step legalities (IR35 being one in particular). Now what happens if the banks have a LEGAL hold over the bank account? I presume HMRC comes first (I'm referring to insolvencies etc.). Can the bank (if they know there are financial problems) say no way? The reason why I'm saying this is because we all know that DRD won't be restricted, it will end up in a free for all. So internet currency could be the future.
As for the £35B uncollected taxes. How much of that is penalties and assessments that are erroneous?
HMRC is the problem
HMRC should not be allowed to be the judge and the prosecutor. HMRC makes lot of mistakes even in allocating the payments. Payments made electronically are constantly been allocated to the wrong accounts and being chased for non-payment. The DMB is there to collect as much as possible may it be the incorrect assessment or allocations errors or not. Joe the public could not afford to go through the Tribunal system and is very scared of it. As for the debts to be recovered how much of it is incorrect penalties, assessments and surcharges?