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The end of the Finance Bill committee debates can’t come soon enough

Executor of the estate of Teresa Rosenbaum (deceased) (TC2804)

HMRC have announced new arrangements for verifying visits to taxpayers by debt management and banking field force collectors, which can take place at a taxpayer’s home or business premises.

A briefing paper on the single compliance process (SCP) has been published by HMRC for tax agents.

The SCP provides a single framework that will be used for most future compliance checks on small and medium enterprise businesses. The recent evaluation found:

Experiences of a practitioner and small business suffering under the weight of real-time information

The proposals for introducing the automatic exchange of information between UK sovereign tax havens and HMRC

Continuing to cut through the Finance Bill committee debates

This week’s tasks for you and your colleagues

Claygold Property Ltd (TC2717)

HMRC’s non-statutory business and non-business clearance systems have merged to become the other non-statutory clearance service.

Agents are advised by the department to check before using the new set-up that a transaction is not covered by a more appropriate clearance or approval route, and that the Taxman’s guidance does not answers the question.

If there is still uncertainty about official interpretation of recent tax legislation, the Revenue can advise in writing unless:

This week’s tasks for your office

More high jinks from the public bill committee’s debate of the Finance Bill