Investigation - how long after filing CT600?

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[cojak]

Hi all,

How long d'you think a set of less than wonderful (although balanced) accounts would take to get an investigation lined up - or just a letter asking for further information? T/O 200,000. VAT registered. No more info on that forthcoming though for hopefully obvious reasons.

i.e. A week or month after filing? 6 months? 51 weeks? As I understand it, HMRC can go back 1 year initally but longer than that in egregious cases.

Thank you

Wold anyone care to translate this into English?

Thanks.

[northernladuk]

Wold anyone care to translate this into English?

Thanks.

I believe it says

'I have been a dick. Will I get away with it? Please ban me'

[ASB]

Wold anyone care to translate this into English?

Thanks.

12 months after they receive it. What they find may enable them to go further back.

[Martin at NixonWilliams]

12 months after they receive it. What they find may enable them to go further back.

As above ^^

Full details available here - HM Revenue & Customs: HMRC compliance checks and enquiries for Corporation Tax

[ChimpMaster]

As above ^^

Full details available here - HM Revenue & Customs: HMRC compliance checks and enquiries for Corporation Tax

Or if he's been d1cking around:

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Timing of enquiries into Company Tax Returns

HMRC must normally send you a notice of enquiry within 12 months of receiving your Company Tax Return. Different deadlines may apply when:
• you file your Company Tax Return late
• you amend your return
• you make a claim separately from your return
• information you gave HMRC about your company was deliberately misleading
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[ASB]

Or if he's been d1cking around:

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Timing of enquiries into Company Tax Returns

HMRC must normally send you a notice of enquiry within 12 months of receiving your Company Tax Return. Different deadlines may apply when:
• you file your Company Tax Return late
• you amend your return
• you make a claim separately from your return
• information you gave HMRC about your company was deliberately misleading
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That does make a little difference. It give up to the quarter day following receipt. The cant just say that return 3 years ago was deliberately misleading. There has to be an in timd enquiry and some discovery.

[ChimpMaster]

That does make a little difference. It give up to the quarter day following receipt. The cant just say that return 3 years ago was deliberately misleading. There has to be an in timd enquiry and some discovery.

Yeah I remember reading something like that too. Doesn't seem right though. I mean on personal tax returns HMRC will go back 20 years for fraud and 6 years for negligence, which implies that OP is safer in (perhaps) having committed fraud on the company tax return rather than on his personal one!

(no slander intended, simply using OP as an example)

[Jessica@WhiteFieldTax]

Yeah I remember reading something like that too. Doesn't seem right though. I mean on personal tax returns HMRC will go back 20 years for fraud and 6 years for negligence, which implies that OP is safer in (perhaps) having committed fraud on the company tax return rather than on his personal one!

Six years for non fraud now four for personal tax as well.