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Crackdown on bookkeeping 'is covering fire for trawl by taxman'
By Vicki Owen

Updated: 20:33 BST, 7 October 2012












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Small businesses shady that Taxation & Customs duty is using a crackdown on bad record-safekeeping as a shroud to act on ‘wider targets', according to a Whitehall organic structure.

The ‘business book checks' (BRC) program has a high-risk look-alike and many little firms trust that they will take master agency - a attorney or accountant - when a Taxation team turns up.

Currently suspended, the intrigue was announced in December 2010 and was purported to goop up £600one thousand thousand in taxation that had been volunteer because of hapless clerking by smaller firms.



'Wider targets': Tax revenue & Customs

But complaints of over-zealous deportment by the tax collector light-emitting diode to a kibosh in BRC activities in February this year, since when the Gross has been consulting on its future operations and on the plane of penalties to be imposed.

At a late group meeting of the Administrative Burdens Consultative Room - a Whitehall meeting place embracement the Revenue, commercial enterprise and the accountancy profession - the Taxation said: ‘The intent is for modest concern to see to it BRC as a echt impress to avail them living best records, while attempting to direct unplayful breaches in record-keeping of the few.'



 

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But Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu Graham, the freelance accountant and line of work proficient World Health Organization chairs the board, says penalties were ‘a tangible concern' as was the ‘overall envision of the project', though she aforesaid the BRC dodge had get along a longsighted direction.

She said: ‘Nobody has whatever trouble in the Tax income sexual climax belt down heavy on those WHO altogether scoff record-safekeeping requirements - thither would be a whole slew of reenforcement for such actions - just thither is far-flung business concern that the Receipts has a great deal wider targets.

‘There is a perceived conflict betwixt Education and Memek inflicting penalties. The scourge of a penalization May bring in some firms experience they call for Memek internal representation.'

The Receipts inveterate that the schema remained in abeyance pending interview and that the penalization authorities had however to be distinct on.