For me and you losing £10k in a day would be a disaster, but for HMRC it’s just another day at the office. The latest blunder comes after HMRC sent out 2,000 penalty notices to people who [...]
Mike Clasper was recruited in to get HMRC’s house in order, but he has failed. The bottom line is this: our government is broke and it needs to get more revenue, yes there have been a [...]
George Gideon Oliver Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer heir to the baronetcy of Ballentaylor, member of the Bullingdon Club, chum to David Cameron and Nat Rothschild, Member of Parliament for [...]
Today’s Telegraph says, “Ten months before the Office for Tax Simplification (OTS) was set up by George Osborne in July 2010, the UK earned the dubious honour of having the world’s [...]
The first-tier tribunal has allowed an appeal in part for an author to claim expenses relating to relocating his boat to southern France against his self-employment income. The case of C Huhtala [...]
Tax doyen and scourge of HMRC Ken Frost has been included in the top 100 financial influencers online in the world of social media for his work on HMRC is Shite.
The Tax-Hell.co.uk site is now being archived by the British Library for history and posterity and the like. When I’m dust these words will live forever in a far-flung corner of Cyberia.
Those who file self-assessment returns will not be charged a £100 penalty if they miss the January 31 deadline, and will not be have to pay any interest on tax owed until February 2, an HM [...]
Over the last few months HMRC boss Dave Hartnett has got it in the neck for giving some big businesses (such as Vodafone and Goldman Sachs) some amazingly generous tax deals, losing The Revenue [...]