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If you continously submit returns which show a repayment to be due, but then continously amend the returns to show a higher repayment, it's obvious that HMRC will quickly cotton on to their being a pattern
Spoils it for the genuine accountants. I've recently taken on two new clients and discovered that their 2014 tax returns were underclaiming various things (one client had done the return himself and hadn't claimed any CA's and another had grossed his dividends up twice). I was already pondering whether HMRC would wonder why I have submitted 2 amended returns for new clients, thus generating repayments, but these two cases are totally fair and just. I hope the Revenue don't tar every agent with the same brush!
Surely, if you use.......
the "white space" and provide an efficient summary/explanation, that goes a good way to avoiding any follow up by HMRC?
Roll on digital tax accounts...
... whereby clients would be able to cotton on to this immediately.