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JOHN PRICE FCA suggests that Customs need to show some more understanding in their business relationships with small traders.
I SEE SERIOUS mistakes in how Customs handle their relationship with traders who they suspect of dishonesty. I have been defending a client since August 2003 against a VAT civil dishonesty penalty for supposedly paying central assessments and failing to submit returns showing the larger sums due. I believe I have found fundamental flaws both in Customs' behaviour and in their paperwork and feel that I must publicise them.
JOHN PRICE FCA suggests that Customs need to show some more understanding in their business relationships with small traders.
I SEE SERIOUS mistakes in how Customs handle their relationship with traders who they suspect of dishonesty. I have been defending a client since August 2003 against a VAT civil dishonesty penalty for supposedly paying central assessments and failing to submit returns showing the larger sums due. I believe I have found fundamental flaws both in Customs' behaviour and in their paperwork and feel that I must publicise them.
This is unlikely to be the only case affected and other advisers may find my points useful. Moreover at least some small firms would struggle to cope with a similar situation. They would not have the resources or the experience to pursue the matter and I suspect that their clients would be unfairly penalised.
I have tried and failed to obtain...
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