{"id":1605,"date":"2023-02-21T23:31:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T23:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2023-02-21T23:31:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T23:31:16","slug":"play-your-card-right-by-gary-brothers-partner-at-independent-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/play-your-card-right-by-gary-brothers-partner-at-independent-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Play Your Card Right&#8221; by Gary Brothers,  partner at Independent Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Closure notice applications are an ace up the advisor\u2019s sleeve, writes Gary Brothers<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As many tax advisors will know only too well, an HMRC enquiry into a self-assessment return can be a long, time-consuming, and frustrating process, with Inspectors seemingly more and more eager to play their statutory cards, such as issuing formal information notices, if they don\u2019t get their own way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The increasing use of the heavy-handed tactics, often without any real dialogue or understanding, can cause worry, confusion or even anger for clients, and possible friction between the clients and advisors, with concerns that the Inspector is prolonging the enquiry with no good reason, or is embarking on a \u2018fishing expedition\u2019 to widen the scope of enquiries into new areas.<\/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\/2023\/02\/Play-Your-Card-Right-by-Gary-Brothers.pdf\">Play-Your-Card-Right-by-Gary-Brothers<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Play-Your-Card-Right-by-Gary-Brothers.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Closure notice applications are an ace up the advisor\u2019s sleeve, writes Gary Brothers. As many tax advisors will know only too well, an HMRC enquiry into a self-assessment return can be a long, time-consuming, and frustrating process, with Inspectors seemingly more and more eager to play their statutory cards, such as issuing formal information notices, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-august-september-2022"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","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=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}