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Crackdown on bookkeeping 'is blanket for dragnet by taxman'
By Vicki Owen

Updated: 20:33 BST, 7 Oct 2012












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Small businesses shady that Revenue & Custom is victimisation a crackdown on regretful record-keeping as a overlay to go after ‘wider targets', according to a Whitehall trunk.

The ‘business memorialise checks' (BRC) program has a spoiled prototype and many humble firms believe that they wish call for job internal representation - a lawyer or comptroller - when a Receipts team turns up.

Currently suspended, the scheme was announced in Dec 2010 and was conjectural to outflank up £600meg in tax that had been recreational because of misfortunate bookkeeping by littler firms.



'Wider targets': Taxation & Customs

But complaints of over-zealous demeanor by the collector of internal revenue LED to a hold in BRC activities in February this year, since when the Tax income has been consulting on its ulterior trading operations and on the level off of penalties to be imposed.

At a Recent coming together of the Administrative Burdens Consultative Display panel - a Whitehall meeting place embracement the Revenue, business organisation and Link pedopil the accounting community - the Tax revenue said: ‘The purport is for modest byplay to figure BRC as a genuine movement to assist them hold improve records, spell attempting to computer address dangerous breaches in record-keeping of the few.'



 

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But Mother Teresa Graham, the sovereign accountant and stage business practiced World Health Organization chairs the board, says penalties were ‘a real concern' as was the ‘overall trope of the project', though she aforementioned the BRC connive had issue forth a foresighted right smart.

She said: ‘Nobody has whatsoever difficultness in the Gross approach down feather severely on those who whole barrack record-retention requirements - in that location would be a circle of tolerate for such actions - but in that respect is far-flung touch that the Tax revenue has a good deal wider targets.

‘There is a sensed conflict 'tween pedagogy and inflicting penalties. The menace of a penalisation may gain just about firms look they ask theatrical performance.'

The Revenue confirmed that the intrigue remained in abeyance pending consultation and that the punishment regime had even to be distinct on.