BN66 - the road to Judicial Review

[SantaClaus]

Probably old news for most...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/e...s-to-lose.html

I particularly like this bit:

"Banks are providing HMRC with details of offshore accounts and any customer failing to disclose any untaxed assets risks being chased by Hartnett and a special team of 20 inspectors. He expects the amnesty and bank data will provide details of half a million offshore bank accounts. "

So does that mean that each inspector has to deal with 25,000 accounts each?

"He is ratcheting up the rhetoric. “My hunch, it is only a hunch, is that a disproportion-ately large number of your readers will be relatively wealthy, will have hidden some money offshore,” he says. "

Too right, he's been trying to get as much media attention us possible because he knows that he doesnt have a hope in hell of going through a million acounts, so the best he can do is use the media and scare people into owning up.

[OnYourBikeGB]

I particularly like this bit:

"Banks are providing HMRC with details of offshore accounts and any customer failing to disclose any untaxed assets risks being chased by Hartnett and a special team of 20 inspectors. He expects the amnesty and bank data will provide details of half a million offshore bank accounts. "

So does that mean that each inspector has to deal with 25,000 accounts each?

"He is ratcheting up the rhetoric. “My hunch, it is only a hunch, is that a disproportion-ately large number of your readers will be relatively wealthy, will have hidden some money offshore,” he says. "

Too right, he's been trying to get as much media attention us possible because he knows that he doesnt have a hope in hell of going through a million acounts, so the best he can do is use the media and scare people into owning up.

My favourite bit was this:

The folksy, tubby, bearded Dave (only his mother calls him David) has done little to endear himself to the tax industry. He complains about a lack of trust

LOL. A lack of trust? Folksy, tubby and bearded? He sounds ... err ... lovable. He'd make a fine Diddy Man himself (any youngsters out there can look it up for the Ken Dodd link that DR referred to, better still, here's an URL http://www.comp.dit.ie/dgordon/Albio...2/Diddymen.gif ,hmm the one second from the right does look uncannily familiar) I feel guilty now, not trusting him and all that. Never mind, Diddy Dave, your mummy loves you. Makes up for all those ruined lives, eh?

[Emigre]

Horned Hartnett

I particularly like this bit:

"Banks are providing HMRC with details of offshore accounts and any customer failing to disclose any untaxed assets risks being chased by Hartnett and a special team of 20 inspectors. He expects the amnesty and bank data will provide details of half a million offshore bank accounts. "

So does that mean that each inspector has to deal with 25,000 accounts each?

"He is ratcheting up the rhetoric. “My hunch, it is only a hunch, is that a disproportion-ately large number of your readers will be relatively wealthy, will have hidden some money offshore,” he says. "

Too right, he's been trying to get as much media attention us possible because he knows that he doesnt have a hope in hell of going through a million acounts, so the best he can do is use the media and scare people into owning up.

Don't you just love it. First of all they deliberately cloud the division between tax evasion and tax avoidance. Now they are blurring the lines between assets and income. The big bearded thug has no right to knowledge of offshore assets. His job is to collect tax on income, and with receipts falling off the face of the earth he is obviously doing an extremely poor job. As an individual you are not evading or even avoiding tax by holding offshore assets. You would fall into one of those camps if you earned income from your offshore assets and failed to declare it appropriately. We don't have to declare our UK bank accounts, why should we pass information about offshore ones? This is the extension of the hand of Big Brother.

It is probably because he is failing to do his job properly that he is hitting on soft targets. His expectations of returns from these offshore accounts is almost certainly wildly optimistic and stated as a means of preserving his own neck. The man is evil, and worse than that, he is given airtime by this lame duck of a Government. Hartnett is unprincipled, has suffered from a complete moral bypass, and yet he talks of lack of trust

[smalldog]

response from my mail to Anne Widdecombe

Dear Mr. tryingtoberippedoffbyHMRCaholes,

Thank you very much for your email of 14 October.

I think the retrospective measure to which you are referring is Section 58 of the 2008 Finance Act. If you consult Hansard and the Division Lists you will find that I voted against it as I have voted against a number of retrospective measures during my time in Parliament.

I therefore see no reason why I should stand up for myself less than I have stood up for others.

I sincerely wish you well for the judicial review as I do believe that retrospective legislation, particularly on such a scale, is unjustified.

Yours sincerely,


The Rt. Hon. Ann Widdecombe MP


Adam Grant
Parliamentary Researcher
Office of the Rt. Hon Ann Widdecombe MP
Email: [email protected]

[DonkeyRhubarb]

...
I sincerely wish you well for the judicial review as I do believe that retrospective legislation, particularly on such a scale, is unjustified.

The Rt. Hon. Ann Widdecombe MP
...

She's a feisty old bird, and it's a shame she's stepping down at the next election. Parliament could do with a few more like her who are not afraid to speak their minds. She would have made an excellent Speaker, and she'd have certainly kept the kiddies under control. I bet she would have introduced the naughty step.

[smalldog]

I found this really funny:

http://www.contractoruk.com/news/004664.html

The real reason is more like this:

"Please tell us, please. Weve had a bad response and as we are such a bunch of incompetent F***wits our administration systems will never find you and weve got no chance of really finding out about your offshore assets unless you tell us..."

[Slobbo]

They may be a bunch of knob ends but they have managed to make our lives a misery. I don't have any offshore accounts but after this BN66 crap would be a little nervous if I did.

Saying that however the HMRC had to illegally obtain the info from that bank in Luxembourg (I think) didn't it? Do the Swiss have to provide the info or can they say bugger off as they aren't in the EU?

[TheBarCapBoyz]

HMRC are trying to access Swiss bank accounts via the tax treaty between Germany and Switzerland...

http://www.gaapweb.com/news/828-HMRC...-accounts.html

[DonkeyRhubarb]

7 weeks today

The big day is approaching.

[ROBIN REDBREAST]

The beginning of the end...

7 weeks today...the beginning of the end...hopefully of all the uncertainty and living life like a locked up criminal, unable to spend ones hard earned salary, earned in alignment with the laws at the time....

The big day is approaching.