HMRC cuts data checks despite VAT fraud increase
HMRC has radically reduced inquiries into sellers using online platforms despite apprehension over VAT evasion and increased complaints from retailers.
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According to HMRC, it has reduced data requests to cope with the reallocation of HMRC to manage Covid support measures, including CJRS and SEISS.
This was as far as I got before HMRC outraged me. They will continue to cut all the corners that they feel like to meet the needs caused by the pandemic, whilst forcing the profession (who quite frankly, are doing most of the work for them) to absorb it with no concessions whatsoever.
It's about time that HMRC practices were put out to public scrutiny in a transparent fashion, with full details of what they will do, and what they don't condone compared with what they themselves do and don't do.
Perhaps, then, the taxpaying public will get a feel for how much discrimination there is between the Government and the people there really is.