Under section 94 of the Finance Act 2009, HMRC have the power to publish the names and details of deliberate tax defaulters (“PDDD” aka HMRC’s naming & shaming tool). These defaulters have received penalties for either having ‘deliberate errors in their tax returns’ or ‘deliberately failing to comply with their tax obligations’. Both natural persons […]
Serious tax investigation: COP9 and COP8 Introduction At Pure Tax Investigations, our Tax Investigations specialists make it their mission to keep up-to-date with all the latest statistics and operational approaches being taken by HM Revenue & Customs (“HMRC”), for the benefit of our clients. Even a routine HMRC self-assessment enquiry can pile on the pressure […]
Following on from an article, Amit Puri originally wrote for the Institute of Certified Practising Accountants (ICPA) in 2021, regarding HMRC’s Worldwide Disclosure Facility (WDF), here he provides an update with the most recent statistics.
Following up on previous articles by Managing Partner, Amit Puri with regards to HMRC’s Serious Tax Investigations statistics, in particular Code of Practice 9 (COP9) and Code of Practice 8 (COP8). Here he shares an update on the latest statistics from HMRC.
HMRC’s Taxpayer Protection Taskforce (TPT) was created to help combat fraud amongst Covid-19 financial support schemes which helped millions of people and businesses survive the pandemic. But how effective have they been? Amit Puri wrote to HMRC to find out more.
A common question our team are regularly asked is how are clients’ Indian Mutual Fund Investments taxed in the UK? In an article for Taxation magazine, Amit Puri takes an in depth look at the issue sharing his own insights into the different types of offshore funds and how to deal with them.
At Pure Tax, our Tax Investigations Specialists make it their mission to keep up-to-date with all the latest statistics and approaches being taken by HMRC for the benefit of our clients. In his latest article, Amit Puri looks again at the subject of HMRC’s Serious Tax Investigation statistics, in particular those cases under Code of Practice 9 (COP9) and Code of Practice 8 (COP8).
Having first written about HMRC’s Worldwide Disclosure Facility (WDF) in June 2020 for the Institute of Certified Practising Accountants (ICPA) bi-monthly magazine, our own Amit Puri has subsequently followed up with HMRC to obtain the latest facts and figures.
In this article our own Amit Puri (Managing Director, Tax Investigations & Disputes) discusses HMRC’s Pilot Programme to help taxpayers get their offshore taxes right first time. We’ve been hearing from many of our accounting and bookkeeping contacts with regards to a new prompt by HMRC during the tax returns process. This was first noted […]
what do we know about the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce? In this article Amit Puri, Tax Director at Pure Tax, considers the instigation of a new Taxpayer Protection Taskforce Unit following the Budget announcement on 3 March 2021. Amongst the fanfare and promises, the Chancellor said the Government will be investing over £100 million into […]
