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New Look Hansard
CHRIS JOWITT and JEFF KELLETT analyse the revised Hansard extract, and consider the implications for tax advisers and taxpayers.
THE LONG AWAITED revised Hansard extract was issued on 7 November 2002. It reads as follows:
'In reply to a Parliamentary Question, the Chancellor gave the following answer regarding serious tax fraud.
“The practice of the Board of Inland Revenue in cases of suspected serious tax fraud is as follows
MIKE DOWN and CHRIS JOWITT raise their (milk) glasses to a Special Commissioner's decision on travel expenses which looks likely to curtail Revenue attempts to 'get at the cream'.
WHAT COULD PROVE to be an important decision for a number of self-employed people was given by the Special Commissioner, Dr Nuala Brice, on 22 October 2002 in what may become known as the 'milkman' case of Powell v Jackman.
CHRIS JOWITT and MIKE DOWN explain why the Revenue is licking its lips over a major project into the catering industry.
THE REVENUE IS giving the catering industry a grilling. A project has developed from routine enquiries which is turning into one of the largest of its kind ever undertaken by the Revenue. This has caused such speculation and rumour, much of it incorrect, that the Revenue considered issuing a press release.
