Official Contractor UK Budget Thread 2017

[bobspud]

If they sorted out VAT fraud they would get a lot of that money.

Had an eye opening experience of chatting with an official receiver a few years ago while sitting in a hospital A&E. The crux of the discussion was Vat fraud is virtually undetectable and nearly all the cases he had seen, were found out by pure chance rather than business intelligence. As it stood criminal gangs could open 50 businesses hit HMRC for a rebate on the very first return and zip off back into the distance. The work in finding those companies would tie inspectors up for years. At the time he was furious that anything under 2 million in fraud was automatically binned as uneconomical to chase.

That leaves an awful lot of space for lost revenue. And in most cases HMRC wouldn't even see it as a fraud case.

[SueEllen]

Did anybody notice in the budget document under policy decisions subsection avoidance,evasion,fraud & error...item number 39 avoidance and evasion:additional compliance resource how the numbers leap from £10M in 2018/19 to £170M the following year and again to £540M the year after and then to £740M by 2022/23. Just saying!

If they sorted out VAT fraud they would get a lot of that money.

[Yorkie62]

Did anybody notice in the budget document under policy decisions subsection avoidance,evasion,fraud & error...item number 39 avoidance and evasion:additional compliance resource how the numbers leap from £10M in 2018/19 to £170M the following year and again to £540M the year after and then to £740M by 2022/23. Just saying!

[Zero Liability]

We've missed your crap.

I'll make an effort to post a bit more. Just thought I'd comment on this since apparently HMT gets a good giggle out of unnerving contractors every Autumn, coincidentally just after Halloween.

[original PM]

One that slipped under the radar: they're opening up the Ordnance Survey MasterMap data

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/c...overnment-data

Useful ty!!

[jamesbrown]

Thanks. Just been very busy, much less time to post crap on a forum with the last few clients and the current one.

We've missed your crap.

[NickFitz]

One that slipped under the radar: they're opening up the Ordnance Survey MasterMap data

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/c...overnment-data

[Zero Liability]

Where the hell've you been?

Welcome back.

Thanks. Just been very busy, much less time to post crap on a forum with the last few clients and the current one.

[jamesbrown]

Yup!

Where the hell've you been?

Welcome back.

[Zero Liability]

On another point: I'm happy Hammy left ER alone for now. Gives me another year hopefully to work myself out of contracting.

Amen.

Who knows, maybe he'll form his own limited company, divert all his income into it and ***** off whilst some other monkey deals with the fallout of his and May's ineptitude.