HMRC Video: Webinar 01/05/25: HMRC Tax Investigations, Enquiries & Disclosures
Webinar 01/05/25: HMRC Tax Investigations, Enquiries & Disclosures – An HMRC Video
On 1st May 2025, we ran another webinar on our in-depth HMRC know-know.
HMRC Video Contents
Whether you missed it, want to see it again and/or want to flag this HMRC video to others who might find it valuable, please click the link above to watch the video recording about:
- My background and the Pure Tax Investigations team
- HMRC’s many data sources
- HMRC’s front-line’s structure
- HMRC’s risk assessments & approaches to enquiries
- Automatic Exchange of Information and the CRS
- HMRC’s Worldwide Disclosure Facility (WDF) and Offshore Penalties
- Property Portfolios – tax planning in trouble
- UK Non-Doms, Remittance Basis, Foreign Income & Gains (FIGs) regime, UK-IHT planning, and the TRF
- Q&A
Accountex
On 16th May 2024, we delivered another presentation showcasing our in-depth HMRC know-know, to a packed live audience at Accountex (Theatre 1). See the Accountex May 2024 Presentation: HMRC Tax Investigations, Enquiries & Disclosures. There is an HMRC video of that too.
See our articles for Accountex too:
Advisers failed to declare UK clients’ Indian interest income
HMRC Large Business Enquiry (corporate enquiries)
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Our Founder and Managing Director is an ex senior Tax Inspector with over ten years direct experience at HM Revenue & Customs, and over ten years in the private sector now (including three at a top 5 accountancy firm in London). Our founder is industry recognised for high quality client experiences and ability to identify and create sound solutions.
See our 5* Google Reviews here, which carry most of our client testimonials (despite our niche tax work being so discreet and private).
Our experience has shown that it’s in a client’s best interest to discuss potential tax issues with an independent tax / HMRC specialist as early on as possible. We provide the right help at the right time, ensuring HMRC are effectively managed and that enquiries are concluded expeditiously and commercially. Learn about Pure Tax here; our credentials and approach to HMRC.
As an Tax Investigations & Disputes / HMRC specialist we are highly adept at managing client interactions with HMRC to ensure processes run smoothly and our clients’ interests are best protected. We provide that all important trusted tax / HMRC specialist ‘buffer’ between our clients and HMRC. All our work is partner-led and so you get our full attention.
There are many terms that describe similar interventions but which all mean the same thing. For example: tax investigation, tax enquiry, HMRC investigation and HMRC enquiry. When HMRC was created in 2005 from combining the old ‘Inland Revenue’ and ‘Customs & Excise’, it inherited a number of differing terms and powers to check the accuracy of direct taxes, VAT and other returns.
Between 2005 and 2010, HMRC sought to align its compliance and tax investigation powers (where possible) and introduced the concept of a “Compliance Check” which still means an HMRC investigation / tax investigation in many ways. These are usually statutory enquiries, based on the self-assessment rules, but sometimes they are informal, usually carrying a threat of HMRC raising formal tax assessments where it is too late to open valid enquiries.
The formal HMRC tax investigation rules / framework is comprised within Section 9A of the Taxes Management Act 1970 (and onwards) for personal tax and partnership tax enquiries, and within Paragraph 24 of Schedule 18 to the Finance Act 1998 (an onwards) for corporate tax enquiries.
However, more in-depth and intrusive investigations are the realm of Fraud Investigation Service. These are not routine compliance checks, and so they need additional care and experience to manage. The various directorates within HMRC’s Customer Compliance Group are covering in the HMRC videos.
Pure Tax brings together leading tax professionals, whether Inland Revenue/HMRC trained and/or ACCA, ATT & CTA for example. Many of our clients have tax affairs which span multiple jurisdictions and this is taken into account with the HMRC specialist tax advice we offer. Read on about Pure Tax.
Examples of the instructions we carry out for clients can be found in the Testimonials and Case Studies sections of this website. Also, there are several HMRC video recordings of our recent presentations.
Pure Tax works closely with other professional intermediaries and is registered with HMRC for the purposes of Anti-Money Laundering supervision legislation.
How we can help?
We believe it’s in a client’s best interests to discuss these types of matters with an ‘independent specialist’ even if there are no discrepancies to disclose. The right help at the right time ensures that HMRC are effectively managed and enquiries / disclosures are concluded expeditiously.
Importantly, we deliver that all-important trusted ‘buffer’ between our clients and HMRC during disclosures, and in-depth and intrusive investigations. See the HMRC video above, which showcases our HMRC practical know-how.
Get in touch to learn more about how Amit and the Tax Investigations and Disputes team have successfully guided clients through the COP9 or COP8 investigation processes; see our tax investigations guide here.
