Budget 2017: Hammond to punish tax cheat professionals
- Wednesday, 08 March 2017
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Chancellor Philip Hammond says he will introduce “a tough new financial penalty” from July on financial professionals who “enable” a tax avoidance scheme that is later challenged and defeated by HMRC.
Read more...STEP tells HMRC: Don’t deter legitimate tax planning
- Friday, 26 August 2016
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The Society for Trust and Estate Practitioners has urged the Government not to make advisers shy away from legitimate tax planning.
Read more...'Ludicrously draconian' - Adviser tax avoidance fines plan blasted
- Thursday, 18 August 2016
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Plans to ensure that advisers pay large fines if they are found to be ‘enablers’ of tax avoidance have been blasted as “ludicrously draconian” and ill conceived.
Read more...New rules crack down on tax avoidance promoters
- Monday, 09 March 2015
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The Government and HMRC have said that they are "taking further tough action to crack down on tax avoidance promoters". Read more...