{"id":31990,"date":"2016-01-14T11:44:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T11:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=31990"},"modified":"2016-01-14T11:44:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T11:44:31","slug":"should-dame-lin-homer-be-saying-people-are-not-liable-to-pay-vat-when-she-admits-she-does-not-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/01\/14\/should-dame-lin-homer-be-saying-people-are-not-liable-to-pay-vat-when-she-admits-she-does-not-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Dame Lin Homer be saying people are not liable to pay VAT when she admits she does not know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/parliamentlive.tv\/Event\/Index\/96634e6f-f91d-4279-98d9-1a90f6a81795\" target=\"_blank\">this hearing before the Public Accounts Committee <\/a>from 15.52 onwards where Dame Lin Homer is questioned about the Amazon and eBay VAT scandals.<\/p>\n<p>Lin Homer fails to answer questions. She cannot say why it has taken years for HMRC to address this issue.<\/p>\n<p>She admits HMRC do not know at present who may be liable for VAT she admits is missing.<\/p>\n<p>She does say suppliers are responsible for their supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>And then staggeringly says that Amazon and eBay cannot be liable for the VAT.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/11\/02\/amazon-and-ebay-who-is-liable-for-the-vat-evasion\/\" target=\"_blank\">I disagree<\/a>. EU law makes it clear they can and should be liable in my view.<\/p>\n<p>But she has now provided those companies with what looks like an official let out stated in parliament which will no doubt be rolled out by them in their defence. I think that reckless.<\/p>\n<p>Who is liable for her recklessness?<\/p>\n<p>I hope she will be.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip: Richard Allen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch this hearing before the Public Accounts Committee from 15.52 onwards where Dame Lin Homer is questioned about the Amazon and eBay VAT scandals. Lin<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/01\/14\/should-dame-lin-homer-be-saying-people-are-not-liable-to-pay-vat-when-she-admits-she-does-not-know\/\"><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":[107,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmrc","category-vat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31990","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=31990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}