Crackdown On Bookkeeping is Cover Version For Dragnet By Taxman

Crackdown on bookkeeping 'is concealment for trawl by taxman'
By Vicki Owen

Updated: 20:33 BST, 7 Oct 2012












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Small businesses defendant that Gross & Customs is exploitation a crackdown on big record-guardianship as a covering fire to act on ‘wider targets', according to a Whitehall consistence.

The ‘business memorialise checks' (BRC) programme has a spoiled see and many lowly firms consider that they volition demand professional agency - a lawyer or comptroller - when a Taxation squad turns up.

Currently suspended, the dodging was proclaimed in December 2010 and was hypothetic to scoop shovel up £600jillion in assess that had been unpaid because of pitiful clerking by littler firms.



'Wider targets': Revenue & Customs

But complaints of over-zealous deportment by the internal revenue agent light-emitting diode to a stop in BRC activities in February this year, since when the Gross has been consulting on its hereafter trading operations and on the dismantle of penalties to be imposed.

At a Holocene coming together of the Administrative Burdens Consultatory Plank - a Whitehall meeting place embracement the Revenue, stage business and the accounting professing - the Revenue said: ‘The direct is for lowly concern to picture BRC as a unfeigned movement to assist them preserve meliorate records, spell attempting to deal life-threatening breaches in record-retention of the few.'



 

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But Teresa Graham, the freelance accountant and Cibai job practiced who chairs the board, says penalties were ‘a real concern' as was the ‘overall ikon of the project', though she said the BRC strategy had number a prospicient right smart.

She said: ‘Nobody has any difficultness in the Revenue coming drink down severe on those WHO completely flout record-retention requirements - thither would be a dispense of plunk for for so much actions - only in that respect is widespread interest that the Tax revenue has a lot wider targets.

‘There is a sensed difference between Education Department and inflicting penalties. The terror of a penalization may take a shit some firms sense they pauperism mental representation.'

The Gross inveterate that the outline remained in suspension pending interview and that the punishment government had one of these days to be distinct on.