Greybeard Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 And some would say about time too, - we can't put all the blame for the deficit at the door of benefit scroungers and immigrants. A spokesman for HMRC said it is spending £900m training an extra 200 criminal investigators and hopes to prosecute five times more people for tax evasion by 2014. He added: "People caught deliberately understating their tax will have their names published if the tax lost exceeds £25,000." "Inspectors are targeting accountants, lawyers, judges and MPs. HMRC is keen to demonstrate that everybody who fails to pay their proper tax is in the firing line - and they are not just cracking down on benefit cheats" Lawyers and judges ?.....surely not http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ianmcowie/100009100/hmrc-targets-middle-class-tax-evaders/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 I like this quote David Kilshaw of KPMG added: “It is going to be a cold Christmas for middle England and in the New Year everybody will have to work harder for less. HMRC will be out in force and determined to continue their crackown on tax avoidance and evasion.” He's making it sound like a crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion is a bad thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altus Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 I like this quote David Kilshaw of KPMG added: “It is going to be a cold Christmas for middle England and in the New Year everybody will have to work harder for less. HMRC will be out in force and determined to continue their crackown on tax avoidance and evasion.” He's making it sound like a crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion is a bad thing. Sounds like his tax affairs are going to be one of the first investigated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melthebell Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 "Taxman to crack down on middle class cheats" you <REMOVED> taxman how could you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carosio Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Lawyers and judges ?.....surely not That fellow who I paid to tarmac my drive the other day, I thought the wig he was wearing was just due to the cold weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mecky Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 need to rope in the tax exiles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vague_Boy Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 And some would say about time too, - we can't put all the blame for the deficit at the door of benefit scroungers and immigrants. Well the deficit isn't caused by tax evasion (we didn't even have a deficit in 1998 for example) but yes, it's good to see that Middle Class tax evasion (way more costly to the treasury than benefit fraud) is being tackled. They should go after all the BTL landlords who aren't paying tax. Tax fraud alerts set to trap landlords who are not declaring rental income or are over stating earnings on mortgage application forms. Lenders now sharing information with HMRC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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