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looks like HMRC are 2-0.
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Previously on "HMRC Enquiry Letters for Choice Premier / Berwick Associates/ Runnymede Services"
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Originally posted by tasee70 View PostHas anyone manage to speak to Mike Kerridge. I have tried calling and emailing but no response. HMRC deadline of 27 July is approaching fast. Are there any alternative for Berwick associates cases who could pursue the cases with HMRC. I am just worried that we gave so much money to Kerridge but he is not responding at the end.
Anyone with any information or alternatives please help.
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not sure if this is the time to switch to https://wttconsulting.co.uk/ as there is no response from Mike Kerridge. Someone could please advise
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Has anyone manage to speak to Mike Kerridge. I have tried calling and emailing but no response. HMRC deadline of 27 July is approaching fast. Are there any alternative for Berwick associates cases who could pursue the cases with HMRC. I am just worried that we gave so much money to Kerridge but he is not responding at the end.
Anyone with any information or alternatives please help.
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Originally posted by GhostofTarbera View Post2 options
1. HMRC caved in, he won and you missed the update in your emails and you can sleep easy
2. He has done a runner
What is your money on ?
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Originally posted by Concernedlc View PostNot wanting to put my head in the lions mouth - but has anyone heard from Kerridge since early this year. It seems that I along with a lot of other people have given him thousands of pounds to defend schemes that he had a hand in advising on and now he seems to have gone awol. He's not answering his phone and his companies are no longer at their registered addresses.
1. HMRC caved in, he won and you missed the update in your emails and you can sleep easy
2. He has done a runner
What is your money on ?
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Contact with Kerridge etc
Not wanting to put my head in the lions mouth - but has anyone heard from Kerridge since early this year. It seems that I along with a lot of other people have given him thousands of pounds to defend schemes that he had a hand in advising on and now he seems to have gone awol. He's not answering his phone and his companies are no longer at their registered addresses.
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Originally posted by administrator View PostSeveral posts have been removed from this thread while we investigate any facts behind them.
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Originally posted by Specsgalore View Postthe user 'mjkberwickexposed' no longer exists, so perhaps that's what it's all connected with as he did make some strong statements?
In answer to previous postings on the subject of making complaints to regulators, here are links you may find useful:
https://www.icaew.com/-/media/corpor...018.ashx?la=en (for ICAEW)
Guidance for the Public | The Taxation Disciplinary Board (for CIoT)Last edited by Centrick; 15 March 2019, 00:56.
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Originally posted by Centrick View PostHow is that going to be done please? After all, it rather depends who you ask as to what you get back by way of 'facts'........
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Originally posted by administrator View Post....posts have been removed.......while we investigate any facts.....Last edited by Centrick; 14 March 2019, 17:44.
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Several posts have been removed from this thread while we investigate any facts behind them.
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My name has been mentioned and I'll respond to the points that I can.
Mis-selling. Of what? You had an opinion as to the tax effects of the arrangements. You had no guarantee that they would work as claimed.
Even if you could show that you placed reliance upon the opinion of a (in this case) professional, were you that professional's client? I suggest not. I suggest that you were a person buying a product rather than a person buying a professional service in which that professional has to adhere to minimum standards and could be sued for giving negligent advice.
Negligent advice can be given only to a client to whom a duty of care is owed. You were not. You were buying a product and the professional gave an opinion to whomever owned that product. That may have been a connected party (even him/herself) but the opinion belonged to the owner and you had no legal rights if you relied upon it.
Whether you had moral or ethical rights is not a question I can answer.
In terms of HMRC powers to go after the "creator/promoter", there are none.
Rules around the penalties that can be visited upon promoters of schemes that fail were introduced only a few years ago. Even then the process is long. When does a scheme fail? Is it when HMRC raise an enquiry? Is it when you pay an APN? Is it when a Judge says so. The first point is a year from submitting a tax return, the second, perhaps 3 years, the third perhaps 10 years. What benefit do you get from such penalties? None.
HMRC does have powers to move against employers. They have blatantly failed to do that in many cases (you cite Berwick being "allowed" to be struck off - I don't know why that was permitted).
It is a harsh truth but you bought a product that depended upon a tax opinion which in turn you have no legal rights to sue over, should it be wrong.
You bought an opinion. A Judge would say that a reasonable man would have executed a degree of due diligence and background checking when you were spending a year, 2 years, 3 years salary on an opinion. Perhaps seeking an independent view from a suitable professional. (If you did and were not warned about the risks, then you have a prima facie case against that second opinion).
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I didn't find much in the way of mis-selling ammo last night but I did find and number of emails along the lines of "you will have seen the new legislation that is being introduced to counter the use of .... as a result we are winding down this arrangement."
The clear conclusion being that the arrangements DID WORK - whatever Stride tries to claim - and were being picked off by tactical legislation year on year.
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