BN66 - Round 2 (Court of Appeal)

[DonkeyRhubarb]

presumably the contact email address would end with @hmrc.gsi.gov.uk

AAG contact info:
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/avoidance/contact.htm

[Vallah]

Odd that. Lots of stuff on disclosure, detection and closing schemes down quickly. Nothing at all about sitting on returns for eight years, panicking, imposing restrospective legislation and putting families out on the street.

Methinks the CIOT missed an opportunity to ask some probing questions rather than sitting there with their tongues firmly up HMRC's fundament.

Indeed. I've been following this case with interest, as I work for a firm involved in offshore tax solutions and am therefore concerned about the wider implications of this case, as I'd like to be able to carry on paying my mortgage!

I think the case strikes right at the heart of basic human rights, so you'd hope that sooner or later common sense will prevail, but given the size of the tax hole to be filled, I think the government will use every dirty trick in the book.

[Morlock]

Question

I have been avoiding tax for years by not buying cigarettes. Can I expect the anti-avoidance group to send me a retrospective bill for what my fair share should have been based on, say, twenty a day?

[Vallah]

Isn't the Taxman trying to scare Financial Advisors by threatening them that any advice given that reduces the UK's tax take (even something mundane like investing in an ISA) could land them in trouble. That hole in the UK accounts must be pretty bloody big indeed. That's what you get from putting an incompetent idiot like Brown in charge I guess.

[robinhood]

Remember if things get really bad..

There is always this

http://sellkidney.com

[smalldog]

I have been avoiding tax for years by not buying cigarettes. Can I expect the anti-avoidance group to send me a retrospective bill for what my fair share should have been based on, say, twenty a day?

brilliant!!! hahahaha....also we should fill our cars to overflowing and drive as much as possible to bolster duty income on fuel, otherwise we are avoiding paying duty!!!! come on drive more everyone, the government needs it!

[Vallah]

brilliant!!! hahahaha....also we should fill our cars to overflowing and drive as much as possible to bolster duty income on fuel, otherwise we are avoiding paying duty!!!! come on drive more everyone, the government needs it!

Maybe they could retrospectively increase fines for anybody caught speeding in the last 6 years from £60 to £60,000. Sorry, by retrospectively I did of course mean "clarify the law".

[weeboaby]

There is always this

http://sellkidney.com

It's a pity that appears to be a spoof website.

Selling a kidney's something I'd have to seriously consider to avoid going bankrupt when the HMRC goons demand payment.

[smalldog]

shambles

in the words of Alan Sugar what an utter shambles...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8571361.stm

[Buzby]

Eyes, ears and lungs for sale

It's a pity that appears to be a spoof website.

Selling a kidney's something I'd have to seriously consider to avoid going bankrupt when the HMRC goons demand payment.

I think I will need to sell than 1 kidney, just to cover the interest.