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Right tools for the job?

12 October 2010 / Mike Truman
Issue: 4276 / Categories: Comment & Analysis , Admin
MIKE TRUMAN is still not sure whether the new agents’ toolkits are properly designed for the job we need them to do.

KEY POINTS

  • HMRC toolkits could be used to define ‘reasonable care’.
  • What adjustments are really needed for interest on credit cards?
  • How accurate do use of home provisions have to be?
  • Result may simply be a long letter for the client to sign.

As I hope some of you have already discovered we now have a regular weekly podcast which goes up on our website by Monday to tell you what is in the coming Thursday’s magazine.

We actually record it at the end of the previous week which means that the articles we write ourselves might not be finished yet.

That was the case with this article. I said in the podcast that I hadn’t yet decided exactly what I felt about HMRC’s Agents’ Toolkits.

I expected that by the time...

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