The following will be going out to all clients.
In respect to the recent HMRC letter, it remains our opinion that the retrospective introduction of tax legislation is contrary to the Human Rights Act and we will now actively pursue a challenge to this specific legislation via a request for a Judicial Review. We are currently consulting with Tax Counsel on this point and will revert to you as soon as possible.
In the meantime we advocate no individual response to this letter but for contractors to wait for the closure notices to be issued. Please let us have copies of the closure notices as a matter of urgency as we only have 30 days to appeal and apply for the postponement of the tax.
We will resist any attempt by HMRC to refuse the application to postpone tax.
If you have not already done so, please let us have a copy of the HMRC letter.
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