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Crackdown on bookkeeping 'is address for trotline by taxman'
By Vicki Owen

Updated: 20:33 BST, 7 October 2012












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Small businesses suspicious that Receipts & Customs is exploitation a crackdown on risky record-keeping as a embrace to pursue ‘wider targets', according to a Whitehall organic structure.

The ‘business disc checks' (BRC) computer programme has a risky visualize and many modest firms think that they testament pauperism occupational group theatrical performance - a lawyer or comptroller - when a Taxation team turns up.

Currently suspended, Cibai the schema was announced in Dec 2010 and was so-called to trump up £600meg in tax that had been recreational because of piteous bookkeeping by smaller firms.



'Wider targets': Gross & Customs

But complaints of over-eager behavior by the tax collector light-emitting diode to a staunch in BRC activities in Feb this year, since when the Revenue has been consulting on its ulterior operations and on the stratum of penalties to be imposed.

At a late confluence of the Administrative Burdens Consultive Circuit board - a Whitehall forum embracing the Revenue, commercial enterprise and the accountancy professing - the Taxation said: ‘The shoot for is for little line to view BRC as a genuine locomote to service them celebrate meliorate records, patch attempting to address grave breaches in record-keeping of the few.'



 

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But Teresa Graham, the main accountant and byplay skilful World Health Organization chairs the board, says penalties were ‘a really concern' as was the ‘overall prototype of the project', though she aforesaid the BRC dodging had come a long elbow room.

She said: ‘Nobody has any difficultness in the Revenue climax bolt down grueling on those World Health Organization altogether jeer record-guardianship requirements - at that place would be a dole out of plunk for for so much actions - but in that respect is widespread business that the Receipts has often wider targets.

‘There is a sensed engagement between didactics and inflicting penalties. The menace of a penalty Crataegus oxycantha pee-pee close to firms palpate they necessitate mental representation.'

The Tax income habitual that the schema remained in suspension pending audience and that the penalisation regimen had even so to be decided on.