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HMRC Tax Investigation strategy – beware!
No CommentsTax investigations are taking a new, slightly sinister twist – HMRC are allegedly demanding personal financial records from business people, without proper grounds for suspicion.
This comes about at a time when Section CH223430 of HMRC’s Tax Investigation handbook appears to have “disappeared. Now I know you’ll be asking what the hell is this reference all about, well it tells inspectors that they need to find something significantly wrong, questionable or suspicious in a business’s record (ie they need to ‘break’ the record) before they can demand personal financial details from an owner or director of that business.
A number of people have noticed that this has become worryingly commonplace, Anne Eager, enquiries manager at RJP, stated:
“I have had requests for private bank records from my clients in opening letters. When I challenged the request, the inspector said that it was to save time, as he felt it was very likely there would be issues with the records.
He added it was a ‘standard approach’ under the new regime.”
In other words HMRC are indulging themselves in fishing trips into people’s private bank records. Once HMRC have access to those records every payment into the account would be under suspicion, and it would be for the taxpayer to prove that the payments in do not constitute taxable income. Innocent until proven guilty – not in the tax world!
and what you may ask has happened to Section CH223430 will return , HMRC claim it will return but why was it removed/dropped in the first place?
Published on July 13, 2010 · Filed under: Employer Tax Compliance, HMRC – what are they up to?, Tax Investigations; Tagged as: compliance audit, compliance audits, employer compliance review, hmrc enquiry, HMRC tax investigation, Inland Revenue investigations, PAYE investigation, tax enquiry, tax investigation
