No To Retro Tax – Campaign Against Section 58 Finance Act 2008

[zaphrus]

Andrew Mitchell ... I bet after plebgate he thought he'd never again be presumed guilty until proven innocent, but I guess he never counted on FB 2014.

[bananarepublic]

Hi,

How do we go about getting confirmation on paying APN's with CTD and taking advantage of the non-accural of interest?

I am assuming if the CTD doesn't stop the interest on APN it will be in our interest to withdrawal the appeal and just pay via the normal route.

You can't. Nobody at HMRC knows. I have been in contact - today - with both the CTD team and the HMRC policy unit who will decide.

I've challenged my MP to ask Gauke to state whether the APN legislation will result in a different end outcome for someone settling the APN with a CTD compared with settling the tax bill without the APN legislation. If the end outcome is different, the APN legislation is clearly retrospective.

There isn't much time. Once the HMRC policy unit decide I would expect Gauke to stick up for it ....

Finally, settling is a bad idea as if Montpelier do eventually succeed you will be stuck with repaying the performance fee (assuming you joined pre 2004)

[BrilloPad]

Pragmatic people who want the right outcome rather than simply to be in the right.

Just as you paid a lobbying group as a tool to bring pressure, you can use public opinion.

If you don't care about public opinion, then all this emphasis on using Twitter is a bit pointless. Because the entire point of Twitter is not to contact the MPs, but to contact them in a way that is visible to the general public.

The right outcome is for you to get a month ban. Please cojak make it so....

[BrilloPad]

The lack of direction from Montpelier is starting to really pi55 me off. How long has it been since we received any contact considering what has happened in recent times?

I suspect now we are on our own. I would be stunned if we hear anything again.

[smalldog]

I suspect now we are on our own. I would be stunned if we hear anything again.

WHS, I suspect Watkin is more concerned with not getting banged up than whether we fight on!

[centurian]

Thank you for your declaration because I am getting irritated by those new posters who seem to be 'guiding' the conversation to EIS/VCT territory.

Err - I think the whole post was a direct quote of Lord Flight's speech last night. Lord Flight is the chair of the EIS association.

[BrilloPad]

Err - I think the whole post was a direct quote of Lord Flight's speech last night. Lord Flight is the chair of the EIS association.

[stonehenge]

WHS, I suspect Watkin is more concerned with not getting banged up than whether we fight on!

Trial is in September. Could be facing 5-7 years custodial for £1m fraud if found guilty.

[BrilloPad]

WHS, I suspect Watkin is more concerned with not getting banged up than whether we fight on!

Even if found innocent I suspect he will head off to Barbados.

[bananarepublic]

Even if found innocent I suspect he will head off to Barbados.

With all this nonsense about APN's and Follower Notices doing the rounds I am beginning to wonder if the best outcome is if Montpelier give up the ghost...

Those in receipt of a follower notice or APN, especially if they purchased a CTD would probably be sensible settling. Lets see - HMRC policy promised to get back to me by the end of the month.

Got a mail merge response from Gauke regarding my question surrounding CTD's from several months ago - he didn't answer the question. Just the usual guff about doing the right thing by the "compliant" majority....

Of course I am still expecting HMRC to do the right thing