{"id":16285,"date":"2012-07-05T07:56:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T06:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=16285"},"modified":"2012-07-05T13:02:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T12:02:55","slug":"another-tax-amnesty-that-just-shows-hmrc-is-too-understaffed-to-collect-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/07\/05\/another-tax-amnesty-that-just-shows-hmrc-is-too-understaffed-to-collect-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Another tax amnesty that just shows HMRC is too understaffed to collect tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H M Revenue &amp; Customs has announced another tax amnesty - this time for anyone who is a\u00a0higher\u00a0rate tax payer who has forgotten to\u00a0submit\u00a0a tax return for 2009-10 and earlier.\u00a0Minimal fines and a 10% penalty are offered. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/money\/news\/article-2168169\/Middle-class-taxpayers-offered-partial-amnesty-undeclared-income.html#ixzz1zj9BmhPo\">But as accountants PKF note in the Mail:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>John Cassidy, a tax investigation and dispute resolution partner at PKF Accountants, said the offer of the amnesty meant HMRC were 'throwing money away'.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He said: 'HMRC knows who has been asked to submit a tax return, and usually where they live and work. So why offer penalty reductions?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>His reason? Simply that there aren't\u00a0enough\u00a0staff at HMRC to now collect the tax due in any other way.<\/p>\n<p>I strongly suspect he is right. What a sorry state of affairs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H M Revenue &amp; Customs has announced another tax amnesty &#8211; this time for anyone who is a\u00a0higher\u00a0rate tax payer who has forgotten to\u00a0submit\u00a0a tax<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/07\/05\/another-tax-amnesty-that-just-shows-hmrc-is-too-understaffed-to-collect-tax\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}