HMRC issue latest round of “nudge letters”
Periodically HMRC issue “nudge letters” to taxpayers as a means of persuading them to reconsider their past UK tax compliance. The content of such letters is based on information already received by HMRC form any of its numerous sources including under the Common Reporting Standard (CRS).
HMRC have their preferential debt status returned to them
As part of Under the Finance Act 2020, the Treasury drafted the Insolvency Act 1986 (HMRC Debts: Priority on Insolvency) Regulations 2020 (the Regulations). In short, HMRC have their preferential debt status returned to them.
What HMRC giveth in 2020, will HMRC taketh away in 2021?
As part of the UK government’s support to the economy in 2020 in response to the pandemic, exceptionally HMRC have been making payments to taxpayers rather than collecting tax payments from taxpayers. Clearly, this cannot continue indefinitely.