HMRC’s former head of tax advised colleagues against revisiting a settlement with Goldman Sachs partly because of concern that the company’s reaction might cause “major embarrassment” to the chancellor and HMRC, the High Court heard yesterday.
UK Uncut Legal Action will ask the High Court this week to declare that a tax settlement HMRC reached with Goldman Sachs was unlawful.
A leaked document sent by HMRC’s former head of tax Dave Hartnett to the exchequer secretary reveals the scale of the government’s “sweetheart” tax deals, The Guardian reported today, as HMRC pr
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Legal professional privilege for tax advice should be abolished, according to Deloitte’s head of tax policy, because it is usually only claimed in cases of the most ‘egregious’ tax planning.
A Birmingham-based ‘independent tax adviser’ was jailed for 18 months at Worcester Crown Court after pleading guilty to charges of cheating the public revenue.
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Two thirds of applications accepted as part of a two-year trial of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) resulted in the disputes being either fully or partially resolved, HMRC said.