BN66 - Round 2 (Court of Appeal)

[swede]

"Definitions are difficult as well as what we may think is avoidance the trader may think is tax mitigation."

And this (again) is from HMRC's:
Chris Tailby
Director, Tax Practice

Who will hold this mob to account?

Remind me, tax avoidance is legal, yes?

[xtal]

Anyone had recent problems receiving CTD's ?

I paid by chaps and sent the letter off on the 24th of February and still not had the CTD. However I received a self assessment statement saying I'd over paid xx,xxx (the amount of the CTD I made).

Is this likely to be backlog / resource related or a balls up ?

There's a phone number on the SA statement and also I notice a phone number back in this thread for the CTD dept, not sure who I should be calling.

any advice welcome.

Thanks in advance.

[Doug1965]

Remind me, tax avoidance is legal, yes?

Maybe , depending on what future retrospective legislation is implemented.

[Emigre]

Maybe , depending on what future retrospective legislation is implemented.

Love it. Actually laughed out loud.

[DonkeyRhubarb]

Anyone had recent problems receiving CTD's ?

I paid by chaps and sent the letter off on the 24th of February and still not had the CTD. However I received a self assessment statement saying I'd over paid xx,xxx (the amount of the CTD I made).

Is this likely to be backlog / resource related or a balls up?

There's a phone number on the SA statement and also I notice a phone number back in this thread for the CTD dept, not sure who I should be calling.

any advice welcome.

Thanks in advance.

Sounds like it could be a balls up, and the money has been credited to your SA account.

I would phone the CTD department.

[helen7]

Sounds like it could be a balls up, and the money has been credited to your SA account.

I would phone the CTD department.

Aren't CTD anonymous? ie. not linked to your SA account

[Emigre]

Aren't CTD anonymous? ie. not linked to your SA account

"Anonymous" is rather like "fair" in that it's not defined in taxes acts. Hector has clearly come up with their own determination of what it means, and true to form an interpretation that is less than obvious. The only plus here seems to be that it got credited to xtal's SA account rather than someone else's. Of course if you are Hector, sitting up north, there's no reason why anyone wouldn't want to put any surplus funds on their SA account at 0% interest.

xtal - make sure that your CTD gets credited from the right date. I agree with DR, looks like a ballsup.

[DonkeyRhubarb]

Aren't CTD anonymous? ie. not linked to your SA account

I think the problem is that the process is flawed.

You make an electronic bank transfer to HMRC and then you are reliant on some bod in Cumbernauld tieing this in with the separate covering letter for the CTD.

I heard from one guy where HMRC ended up writing to his bank to find out who the CHAPS payment was for. D'oh!

This is the reason I sent a cheque. I figured at least if the cheque was stapled to the covering letter, the money was less likely to go AWOL.

[xtal]

Thanks for the advice. For sure it's got to be a balls up, I done nothing different to the ctd I bought in 2008.

No doubt they will claim to have not got letter or some nonsense.

Will call CTD dept. and see what they say.

[xtal]

01236 785202 CTD dept. - voicemail, cheers hmrc!