{"id":2164,"date":"2024-12-18T20:21:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T20:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2024-12-18T20:21:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T20:21:10","slug":"to-paraphrase-john-mcenroe-hmrc-you-cannot-be-serious-by-tony-margaritelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/to-paraphrase-john-mcenroe-hmrc-you-cannot-be-serious-by-tony-margaritelli\/","title":{"rendered":"To paraphrase John McEnroe: \u201cHMRC, you cannot be serious!\u201d by Tony Margaritelli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My headline on my article in the last issue of this magazine was \u2018We are in a perfect storm. Where do we go from here?\u2019 The issue contained several contributors lamenting the service, or the lack of service, provided by HMRC. Anton Lane said: \u201cTax is a mechanism to pay for poor service and to pay those that check you paid the right amount of tax, and they may not have regard for the law and procedures they set themselves.\u201d Matt Hall was forthright in stating: \u201cTaxpayers are no more \u2018customers\u2019 of HMRC than a kidnap victim is their captors\u2019 guest. Rather than impose standards for tax agents HMRC should sort its own house out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it came to R&amp;D, Dave Wase said: \u201cWith this constant pressure to increase the tax yield arising from enquiries HMRC have looked across their patch at new veins of yield to exploit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are respected practitioners pushed to vent their frustrations and anger by poor HMRC standards of service. Then on 7 December HMRC announced planned changes to the ADL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said: \u201cBetween 11 December 2023 and 31 January 2024, we are also prioritising our available resource on the ADL to support the SA peak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download the full article below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/To-paraphrase-John-McEnroe-by-Tony-Margaritelli-.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of To paraphrase John McEnroe by Tony Margaritelli.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-91112257-59db-4903-88e9-95d63459db12\" href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/To-paraphrase-John-McEnroe-by-Tony-Margaritelli-.pdf\">To paraphrase John McEnroe by Tony Margaritelli<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/To-paraphrase-John-McEnroe-by-Tony-Margaritelli-.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-91112257-59db-4903-88e9-95d63459db12\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My headline on my article in the last issue of this magazine was \u2018We are in a perfect storm. Where do we go from here?\u2019 The issue contained several contributors lamenting the service, or the lack of service, provided by HMRC. Anton Lane said: \u201cTax is a mechanism to pay for poor service and to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-december-january-2024"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","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=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions\/2166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}