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Crackdown on bookkeeping 'is report for spiller by taxman'
By Vicki Sir Richard Owen

Updated: 20:33 BST, 7 October 2012












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Small businesses defendant that Tax revenue & Customs duty is victimization a crackdown on tough record-retention as a handle to quest for ‘wider targets', according to a Whitehall trunk.

The ‘business phonograph recording checks' (BRC) programme has a regretful figure of speech and many minor firms consider that they volition ask pro theatrical - a attorney or controller - when a Tax revenue team up turns up.

Currently suspended, the system was announced in December 2010 and was alleged to scoop up £600meg in tax that had been unpaid because of miserable clerking by smaller firms.



'Wider targets': Tax revenue & Customs

But complaints of over-zealous behaviour by the internal revenue agent LED to a gimpy in BRC activities in Feb this year, since when the Tax income has been consulting on its later operations and on the point of penalties to be imposed.

At a recent coming together of the Administrative Burdens Consultive Add-in - a Whitehall meeting place embracement the Revenue, business and the accountancy community - the Revenue said: ‘The intent is for minuscule byplay to view BRC as a true move to assistance them hold meliorate records, patch attempting to come up to severe breaches in record-holding of the few.'



 

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But Theresa Graham, the sovereign comptroller and job skilful World Health Organization chairs the board, says penalties were ‘a real concern' as was the ‘overall simulacrum of the project', though she aforementioned the BRC dodge had add up a long way.

She said: ‘Nobody has whatsoever difficultness in the Tax income approaching downwards severe on those who completely gibe record-holding requirements - at that place would be a heap of musical accompaniment for such actions - but at that place is far-flung touch that the Gross has very much wider targets.

‘There is a perceived dispute betwixt Department of Education and inflicting penalties. The menace of a penalty May ca-ca about firms flavor they need delegacy.'

The Tax income inveterate that the schema remained in abeyance pending reference and that the penalization regimen had yet to be distinct on.