{"id":1174,"date":"2022-02-21T10:45:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T10:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2022-02-21T10:49:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T10:49:49","slug":"hmrc-serious-tax-investigations-an-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/hmrc-serious-tax-investigations-an-update\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;HMRC Serious Tax Investigations&#8217; by Amit Puri, Head of Lancaster Knox&#8217;s Tax Investigations &#038; Disputes Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amit Puri examines the latest Codes of Practice 8 and 9 tax investigations statistics and shares his insights on what they mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>As outlined in a previous original article, HMRC\u2019s investigations carried out under their Codes of Practice 8 and 9 are intensive and resource hungry. Without careful and experienced handling a client\u2019s interests cannot be fully protected and the processes managed with more certainty. HMRC are looking for lost taxes, interest for the late payment of those taxes, and typically large penalties for failing to submit correct tax returns or failing to notify HMRC that taxes were payable. In addition to this, HMRC will usually seek to name and shame clients publicly \u2013 their non-financial weapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>With this in mind, my focus returned to the statistics for HMRC\u2019s serious civil tax investigations, specifically those cases under Code of Practice 9 (COP9) and Code of Practice 8 (COP8).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download the full article below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/HMRC-Serious-Tax-Investigations-by-Amit-Puri-Head-of-Lancaster-Knoxs-Tax-Investigations-Disputes-Practice.pdf\">HMRC-Serious-Tax-Investigations-by-Amit-Puri-Head-of-Lancaster-Knoxs-Tax-Investigations-Disputes-Practice<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/HMRC-Serious-Tax-Investigations-by-Amit-Puri-Head-of-Lancaster-Knoxs-Tax-Investigations-Disputes-Practice.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amit Puri examines the latest Codes of Practice 8 and 9 tax investigations statistics and shares his insights on what they mean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-august-september-2021"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}