{"id":2176,"date":"2024-12-18T20:25:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T20:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2024-12-18T20:25:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T20:25:08","slug":"you-couldnt-make-it-up-by-mark-mclaughlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/you-couldnt-make-it-up-by-mark-mclaughlin\/","title":{"rendered":"You couldn\u2019t make it up! by Mark McLaughlin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Mark McLaughlin points out that there may be unfortunate consequences for clients who turn a blind eye to their agent\u2019s errors<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tax return errors by taxpayers are not uncommon. This is perhaps understandable, given the complexity of the UK tax system and the potential for misunderstanding tax law. It is undoubtedly an important reason why many taxpayers engage agents to deal with the preparation and filing of their tax returns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Who\u2019s to blame?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, what if an error is made in the taxpayer\u2019s return by an agent? These days we live in a blame culture, and taxpayers might feel justified in blaming their agents as a convenient escape from a penalty for a tax return error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Understandably, agents will normally seek to detach themselves from blame for tax return errors. If the agent admits responsibility, they leave themselves open to a possible professional negligence claim. Furthermore, an acrimonious dispute could result in a complaint being made to the agent\u2019s professional body (if they are regulated by one).<\/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\/You-couldnt-make-it-up-by-Mark-McLaughlin.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of You couldn\u2019t make it up! by Mark McLaughlin.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-2ed6c505-8c69-46d0-93fd-c6b9b27b457f\" href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/You-couldnt-make-it-up-by-Mark-McLaughlin.pdf\">You couldn\u2019t make it up! by Mark McLaughlin<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/You-couldnt-make-it-up-by-Mark-McLaughlin.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-2ed6c505-8c69-46d0-93fd-c6b9b27b457f\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark McLaughlin points out that there may be unfortunate consequences for clients who turn a blind eye to their agent\u2019s errors Tax return errors by taxpayers are not uncommon. This is perhaps understandable, given the complexity of the UK tax system and the potential for misunderstanding tax law. It is undoubtedly an important reason why [&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-2176","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\/2176","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=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2178,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions\/2178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}