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HMRC Checks and Enquiries
HMRC are carrying out an increasing number of investigations into taxpayers’ affairs to uncover evidence of the following activities:
- attempting to reduce the amount of tax paid via misrepresentation, concealment, or omission
- activity carried out in the hidden economy
- undeclared sources of income
- false generation of tax repayments
- smuggling
There is a set procedure under law governing these investigations and how they are conducted. If you are contacted by HMRC enquiring into your own tax and financial affairs, it is strongly in your best interest to seek professional representation.
If you have recently been contacted by HMRC enquiring into the amount of tax you have paid and your level of income howsoever earned, please use the form below, call us free on 0800 140 4644, or email [email protected].
Understanding HMRC Tax Investigation
Have you received an HMRC investigation letter?
Being sent a letter by the taxman is part of the standard HMRC tax investigation procedure.
This does not mean that you will be subject to an HMRC criminal investigation – all it means is that they’re making an enquiry at this point.
Following their initial letter to you, they may:
- request a visit (we would advise that a professional be present with you at the meeting to protect your interests)
- launch a full investigation into your tax affairs
- enter into prolonged correspondence with you during which they make formal requests for further information
- request a meeting (an advisor can be present at these meetings)
- issue with a demand for unpaid taxes (plus fees and penalties) if they find that you have not paid the correct amount of tax (demands can be appealed against)
The HMRC tax investigation time limit I have been set seems unreasonable
It’s likely that the amount of information and documentation HMRC will request from you will be substantial. If you feel that you will be unable to furnish them with everything they’ve asked for within the timescale they have set, you should let them know ask quickly as possible explaining why and proposing an alternative timescale.
You are also entitled to complain if you feel HMRC are taking too long in dealing with your responses to their questions.
How I can avoid HMRC contacting me directly in the future?
Being sent a letter by the taxman is part of the standard HMRC tax investigation procedure.
This does not mean that you will be subject to an HMRC criminal investigation – all it means is that they’re making an enquiry at this point.
Following their initial letter to you, they may:
- request a visit (we would advise that a professional be present with you at the meeting to protect your interests)
- launch a full investigation into your tax affairs
- enter into prolonged correspondence with you during which they make formal requests for further information
- request a meeting (an advisor can be present at these meetings)
- issue with a demand for unpaid taxes (plus fees and penalties) if they find that you have not paid the correct amount of tax (demands can be appealed against)
HMRC investigation insurance
Black and White Accounting offers fee protection insurance to our clients – this insurance covers you against all of the costs incurred:
- in one of our accountants mounting a defence for you against specific allegations and
- for negotiating on the size of any fees or penalties attached to any undeclared and unpaid tax.
Please click here for more about our fee protection insurance.
HMRC Checks and Enquires in Hampshire and Surrey
Professional representation during an investigation by HMRC is very important to make sure that you are fairly and justly treated.
Accounting firms like Black and White deal with HMRC on a daily basis – we know what type of information they want to see when an enquiry is made and the way in which they want the information presented to them.
The UK tax system is ferociously complicated and, as a result, tens of thousands of investigations are carried out each year by HMRC. Contrary to popular belief, HMRC want all resolutions to be fair to the taxpayer involved and the best way to achieve this outcome is to let one of our team deal with the enquiry on your behalf.
If you have recently been contacted by HMRC enquiring into the amount of tax you have paid and the ways in which you generate income for yourself, please use the form below, call us free on 0800 140 4644, or email [email protected].
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