A point up for discussion.
The short and sweet on how I see things, this whole mess we are in is HMmafia's fault.
HMRC started this mess with IR35 on contractors. (We all know the long list of facts why we were not employees.)
HMRC are writing the unfair duplicitous rules we have to follow. (See HMRC's tax rules, not even HMRC understand them.)
HMRC is the referee in the game.
HMRC advise in their own communications to seek professional advice (in my case I was told had a QC's blessing), which I did and followed and ended up in a loan scheme.
HMRC took many years before 'coming out', costing us even more in interest.
HMRC refuse to tell people how they will apply (or even followed) their own rules.
My point. Who seriously thinks the professionals stand a chance in this stacked game against HMRC. What we need is political backing, someone to stop HMRC.
But as we've all seen the good old unbiased fair British media
has done a good jobs of turning all tax planing, no matter how legal, into a toxic lawbreaking criminal activity no politician will touch. So how do we get political backing, the magic word is votes.
I saw an article where HMRC said there are around 60,000 (or was it 80,000) people they are going after that were involved in these schemes. When you get to those numbers I would say it is 100% HMRC's fault.
60,000 . . . . voters !!! Most have wives / husbands / children of voting age. If we could get enough people to sign a petition for the politicians to stop this
The petition should:
1 - Explain how we got here and why HMRC is to blame (the history).
2 - The facts of why what we did was legal according to UK law.
3 - We will not vote for any political party that does not come out against HMRC in these endeavours.
Think about it in the current balance of votes. Which party is going to tell 60,000+ voters to ugger off.
The short and sweet on how I see things, this whole mess we are in is HMmafia's fault.
HMRC started this mess with IR35 on contractors. (We all know the long list of facts why we were not employees.)
HMRC are writing the unfair duplicitous rules we have to follow. (See HMRC's tax rules, not even HMRC understand them.)
HMRC is the referee in the game.
HMRC advise in their own communications to seek professional advice (in my case I was told had a QC's blessing), which I did and followed and ended up in a loan scheme.
HMRC took many years before 'coming out', costing us even more in interest.
HMRC refuse to tell people how they will apply (or even followed) their own rules.
My point. Who seriously thinks the professionals stand a chance in this stacked game against HMRC. What we need is political backing, someone to stop HMRC.
But as we've all seen the good old unbiased fair British media
has done a good jobs of turning all tax planing, no matter how legal, into a toxic lawbreaking criminal activity no politician will touch. So how do we get political backing, the magic word is votes.
I saw an article where HMRC said there are around 60,000 (or was it 80,000) people they are going after that were involved in these schemes. When you get to those numbers I would say it is 100% HMRC's fault.
60,000 . . . . voters !!! Most have wives / husbands / children of voting age. If we could get enough people to sign a petition for the politicians to stop this
The petition should:
1 - Explain how we got here and why HMRC is to blame (the history).
2 - The facts of why what we did was legal according to UK law.
3 - We will not vote for any political party that does not come out against HMRC in these endeavours.
Think about it in the current balance of votes. Which party is going to tell 60,000+ voters to ugger off.
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