Presenter Adrian Chiles wins tax appeal after seven years February 16, 2022 After more than seven years and two tribunal hearings, the broadcaster and writer Adrian Chiles has finally won his IR35 case relating to services provided to the BBC and ITV between the five tax years spanning 2012 to 2017. The tribunal’s partial analysis found that all the contracts created the initial impression of contracts of [...]
HMRC splashes £12m on data analysts February 16, 2022 HMRC has almost tripled its yearly spend on data analyst and data scientist roles over the past five years, according to official figures. The data, retrieved via the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) and analysed by the Parliament Street think tank, revealed a large uptake in data analyst and data science staff year on year [...]
Taxman opens 20 investigations into crypto assets February 15, 2022 The UK's tax authority has opened 20 criminal investigations involving digital assets as it seeks to crack down on crypto fraud.
Letters: Will someone let the dogs out to get the Covid fraudsters? February 15, 2022 [Re: HMRC inertia to claw back stolen furlough money to leave taxpayers with £4bn bill, Feb11] The report that taxpayers will be forced to shoulder a £4bn burden as a result of HMRC failing to collect the money is frankly preposterous. Every time this is brought up Rishi Sunak claims it was as a result [...]
Workers in these sectors could be owed thousands from HMRC as cost of living set to spiral February 15, 2022 With the cost of living set to spiral, research by tax refund experts, accountants have told City A.M. this morning many UK workers are unaware of the thousands of pounds they could be owed via a tax refund, particularly those working within construction, security, in offshore oil and gas or within the armed forces. It’s shaping [...]
Government rejects less than one per cent of nearly 3m expenses February 14, 2022 The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has rejected just one claim out of more than 18,000 in the year to March 2021, which has raised eyebrows over at spend management firm Emburse. Across all government departments, rejected expense claims make up just 0.07 per cent of the total 2.95m submitted between 2019 [...]
Taxman seizes three NFTs amid growing fraud concerns February 14, 2022 The tax authority has seized its first non-fungible tokens (NFTs) amid fears criminals are concealing wealth using digital assets.
Exclusive: Business tax reliefs jump to record £94bn as number of available reliefs grows to 57 February 14, 2022 The value of tax reliefs claimed by UK businesses reached a record £93.7bn last year, up another 5 per cent from the £89.3bn claimed the year before, according to new data shared exclusively with City A.M. today. The growth in the value of business tax reliefs claimed has been driven by the rise in the number [...]
Covid fraud fiasco widens as plans to recover £6bn are slammed as ‘soft HMRC is rewarding the unscrupulous’ February 14, 2022 In a report published late on Friday, Parliament’s cross party Public Accounts Committee says “HMRC’s unambitious plans” for recovering a total of £6bn it estimates it spent incorrectly in Covid-19 support payments – whether through fraud or mistakes – could lead to government writing off billions of pounds in taxpayers’ money. The PAC said this “risks rewarding the [...]
Weak efforts to claw back stolen furlough money by HMRC to leave taxpayers with £4bn bill February 11, 2022 Weak efforts by the taxman to clawback Covid-19 support money stolen by fraudsters will result in taxpayers shouldering a £4bn loss, warns a new report published today by a group of cross-party MPs. “HMRC’s unambitious plans” to recover billions of misspent pounds through the furlough and business loan schemes could see taxpayers holding the bag, [...]