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In every enquiry into a business, HMRC will seek to subject the accounting records to data interrogation. Tony Monger (Mazars) explains what HMRC is looking for.
A recent tribunal decision erodes the behavioural distinction between ‘careless’ and ‘deliberate behaviour’, write Constantine Christofi (RPC) and Sam Brodsky (Gray’s Inn Tax Chambers).
Most companies are simply not taking the necessary actions to ensure they have reasonable prevention procedures in place, writes Oliver Pumfrey (FTI Consulting).
Ian Hyde and Matthew Greene (Osborne Clarke) discuss HMRC’s data-gathering powers that provide an effective tool to police the gig economy.
Sarah Squires (Old Square Tax Chambers) reviews the operation of the loss restriction, the deductions allowance and the related compliance issues.
In yet another IR35 case, a tribunal considers the procedural validity of the determinations under which HMRC sought to collect the tax.
The loan charge has driven a coach and horses through the statutory safeguards, writes barrister Keith Gordon (Temple Tax Chambers). 
Recent decisions reinforce that HMRC is empowered to request information and investigate taxpayers’ positions without using statutory enquiry or information powers, writes Helen Adams (BDO).

Despite the review being an important event, it appears to be very much business as usual at HMRC.

Paul Aplin OBE (A C Mole & Sons) welcomes proposals for a new professional standards committee.
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