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Happy new year?

08 February 2011 / Alex Byrne
Issue: 4291 / Categories: Comment & Analysis , Admin
ALEX BYRNE wonders whether the recently submitted tax returns will bring more or fewer enquiries

KEY POINTS

  • Do HMRC have the resources to open more enquiries?
  • Greater consistency for the penalty regime.
  • There is still a difference between direct and indirect enquiry periods.
  • The need to settle enquiries sooner.
  • The role of agents and HMRC’s correspondence to clients.

I have just had a few glasses of wine and gone round kissing my colleagues and wishing them a happy new year. He has really gone off his trolley this time I hear you thinking. But no because I have always felt that there are three new years in tax.

There is of course the normal calendar year starting on 1 January when you feel the evening before that you really should be doing something special but do not and then you feel that another...

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