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Carelessness costs money
KEY POINTS
- HMRC may issue more than one discovery assessment to a taxpayer for the same tax year.
- A lack of adequate disclosure may contribute to a finding of carelessness which extends the time limit for discovery assessments.
- Advisers should check all the legislative conditions for a discovery assessment.
Discovery is an area where case law is plentiful. TMA 1970 s29 authorises HMRC to issue an assessment if the officer discovers an under-assessment of tax or excessive tax relief to ‘make good’ the loss of income tax or capital gains tax. Similar provisions exist in FA 1998 Sch 18 paras 41 to 49 for corporation tax.
The First-tier Tribunal decision in William Ritchie and another (TC5911) sheds further light on when HMRC’s discovery assessments may be ruled invalid and when advisers may be considered careless.
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