BN66 - Round 2 (Court of Appeal)

[portseven]

Linked in

I may be reading far too much into this, but checked my Linked in profile this weekend and had a look at who had been viewing my profile recently.

It seems an 'Advisor' at HMRC had viewed my profile last week, having a look there a load of types of advisor there, though there was a Tax Policy advisor was listed.

It might be interesting if others checked their Linkedin profiles to see if there has been any HMRC activity

[centurian]

If you're that curious, you could cough up the subscription and find the actual identify of the person that viewed your profile.

[BarneyCool]

How can you view these stats?

I may be reading far too much into this, but checked my Linked in profile this weekend and had a look at who had been viewing my profile recently.

It seems an 'Advisor' at HMRC had viewed my profile last week, having a look there a load of types of advisor there, though there was a Tax Policy advisor was listed.

It might be interesting if others checked their Linkedin profiles to see if there has been any HMRC activity

How can I check this? Do I need more than just the basic account?

[portseven]

How can I check this? Do I need more than just the basic account?

Your basic account will tell you the names of people in your network who have viewed your profile, as well as some generic info about people outside of your network who have viewed your profile. So 'Advisor' at HMRC

[smalldog]

nothing on my linked in, could just be someone who knows someone in your network being nosey and checking out who they know...

[portseven]

nothing on my linked in, could just be someone who knows someone in your network being nosey and checking out who they know...

True

So of the 10 people at HMRC that Linked in gives me as possible viewer matches, 2 are IT people, 1 is unknown, the rest are either 'Tax Policy Advisor's' or 'Policy Advisor's'

[Fireship]

2008 / 2009 enquiry

Anyone else had a letter from MontP stating that HMRC have asked for copies of bank statements for 2008 – 2009??

I have no problem providing the information but in this age of identity theft it really irks me that HMRC can demand copies and that nothing should be deleted (i.e. bank account, sort code, etc). Knowing how incompetent HMRC are they’ll simply dump them in the bin once they’re finished with them and before you know it my identity will be ripped off by some criminal and I’ll never be able to travel or work again!!

[smalldog]

this maybe a very long shot, but you dont think that there is a slight possiblity that the reason the COA is taking its time is because there is something in the budget to revoke all of this so will wipe out any need for them to make a judgement?? After all its only round the corner (3 weeks away) and they have taken a very long time....and there are simplifications of the tax system due shortly....

[Lazylobster]

this maybe a very long shot, but you dont think that there is a slight possiblity that the reason the COA is taking its time is because there is something in the budget to revoke all of this so will wipe out any need for them to make a judgement?? After all its only round the corner (3 weeks away) and they have taken a very long time....and there are simplifications of the tax system due shortly....

Nice idea, but you think it would be in our favor. . . . ?

Prob another BN66 style ruling designed to feck us all up. . .

LL

[Toocan]

Nice idea, but you think it would be in our favor. . . . ?

Prob another BN66 style ruling designed to feck us all up. . .

LL

Maybe it's not a such a mad idea. HMRC have been able to introduce other retrospecive legislation on the back of section 58. If HMRC ultimately lose, and the retrospection of s.58 has to be repealed, then they will have lost a very powerful tool. It may be preferable for s.58 to be re-written by HMRC, rather than by the courts - if it is struck down by the courts then those other retrospective measures are in doubt, that is not the case of Parliament changes the law.

It may be a case of give away £200m (that they'll never manage to collect) in order to collect even more from others.

Note how the civil service let down the foreign secretary over the Libyan evacuation last week - officials are being "moved around" due to this. That may signal that the civil service do not have the power they used to have with the last government. They let their minister be humiliated on tv, and now they are feeling the result...