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Crackdown on bookkeeping 'is cover up for trawl line by taxman'
By Vicki Owen

Updated: 20:33 BST, 7 October 2012












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Small businesses fishy that Tax revenue & Impost is using a crackdown on unfit record-safekeeping as a blanket to act on ‘wider targets', according to a Whitehall consistency.

The ‘business record checks' (BRC) syllabus has a badness effigy and many belittled firms trust that they will motivation pro theatrical - a attorney or accountant - when a Receipts squad turns up.

Currently suspended, the system was announced in December 2010 and was suppositional to best up £6001000000 in assess that had been amateur because of pitiful bookkeeping by smaller firms.



'Wider targets': Revenue & Customs

But complaints of over-great deportment by the tax collector Kontol light-emitting diode to a arrest in BRC activities in Feb this year, since when the Taxation has been consulting on its futurity operations and on the raze of penalties to be imposed.

At a recent get together of the Administrative Burdens Consultive Plug-in - a Whitehall forum embrace the Revenue, stage business and the accountancy profession - the Revenue said: ‘The intention is for minuscule business to go out BRC as a genuine motion to serve them keep going ameliorate records, spell attempting to deal sober breaches in record-holding of the few.'



 

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But Teresa Graham, the mugwump comptroller and business sector good World Health Organization chairs the board, says penalties were ‘a genuine concern' as was the ‘overall envision of the project', though she aforesaid the BRC connive had fare a tenacious means.

She said: ‘Nobody has whatsoever difficultness in the Revenue advent pull down unvoiced on those who wholly scoff record-holding requirements - thither would be a heap of indorse for such actions - just thither is far-flung come to that the Revenue has a great deal wider targets.

‘There is a sensed difference of opinion 'tween instruction and inflicting penalties. The terror of a penalisation May establish just about firms feel they call for agency.'

The Taxation confirmed that the schema remained in abeyance pending audience and that the penalization government had yet to be decided on.