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How HMRC deals with tax disputes

25 July 2018 / Richard Jeens , Tom Gilliver
Issue: 4657 / Categories: Comment & Analysis
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Agreeable disagreements

KEY POINTS

  • The Treasury Sub-Committee is inquiring into the conduct of tax enquiries and the resolution of tax disputes.
  • Does HMRC’s conduct in tax enquiries and disputes meet its code of governance?
  • Disputes must be resolved ‘in accordance with the law’.
  • Enquiries require increasingly greater and earlier commitment of taxpayers’ resources.
  • Can the scope of HMRC’s request be narrowed?
  • The litigation and settlement strategy imposes restrictions on HMRC’s ability to make concessions.
  • Settlement proposals concerning larger more complex or sensitive cases must...

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