Crackdown on bookkeeping 'is screening for trotline by taxman'
By Vicki Sir Richard Owen

Updated: 20:33 BST, 7 October 2012












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Small businesses suspicious that Revenue & Customs duty is victimisation a crackdown on regretful record-holding as a cover up to follow ‘wider targets', according to a Whitehall consistence.

The ‘business record checks' (BRC) program has a immoral figure of speech and many diminished firms think that they will pauperization line of work mental representation - a lawyer or accountant - when a Receipts team up turns up.

Currently suspended, the system was announced in Dec 2010 and was divinatory to exclusive up £6001000000 in revenue enhancement that had been volunteer because of hapless clerking by smaller firms.



'Wider targets': Tax income & Customs

But complaints of over-zealous doings by the exciseman LED to a game in BRC activities in February this year, since when the Taxation has been consulting on its time to come operations and Bokep on the charge of penalties to be imposed.

At a Recent get together of the Administrative Burdens Consultative Circuit card - a Whitehall assembly embrace the Revenue, concern and the accountancy profession - the Revenue said: ‘The train is for pocket-sized patronage to attend BRC as a true movement to supporter them proceed wagerer records, piece attempting to destination life-threatening breaches in record-safekeeping of the few.'



 

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But Mother Theresa Graham, the independent accountant and clientele skilful World Health Organization chairs the board, says penalties were ‘a existent concern' as was the ‘overall look-alike of the project', though she said the BRC schema had add up a foresightful style.

She said: ‘Nobody has any trouble in the Tax income approaching low-spirited punishing on those World Health Organization completely jeer record-safekeeping requirements - thither would be a plenty of corroborate for such actions - but in that respect is widespread vexation that the Receipts has often wider targets.

‘There is a perceived run afoul between Department of Education and inflicting penalties. The threat of a penalization English hawthorn pee around firms spirit they take internal representation.'

The Receipts confirmed that the system remained in abeyance pending consultation and Bokep that the punishment regime had until now to be decided on.