{"id":2794,"date":"2026-06-27T16:12:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/?p=2794"},"modified":"2026-06-27T16:12:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:12:49","slug":"red-letter-days-by-paul-rosser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/red-letter-days-by-paul-rosser\/","title":{"rendered":"Red letter days by Paul Rosser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How fair to claimants and advisors is HMRC\u2019s seemingly scattergun approach to issuing FIS letters? Here Paul Rosser shares some thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in 2022, it became apparent that some companies which had submitted a claim for R&amp;D tax relief subsequently received a letter from HMRC\u2019s Fraud Investigation Service (FIS), which stated that the R&amp;D claim had \u201ctriggered an alert\u201d on HMRC\u2019s system, and \u201ccaused HMRC to believe that you have fraudulently claimed money to which you were not entitled\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obviously, receiving a letter from HMRC\u2019s FIS team would be concerning for most companies, especially as the letter in question also included a disclaimer at the bottom which read: \u201cAt this time, HMRC has not opened a criminal investigation into this suspected fraud. However, you should be aware that HMRC reserves the right to open a criminal investigation into any suspected fraud committed against the R&amp;D scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\/2026\/06\/Red-letter-days-by-Paul-Rosser.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Red letter days by Paul Rosser.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-fe38754a-2e59-4b46-9904-29812ace5ed2\" href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Red-letter-days-by-Paul-Rosser.pdf\">Red letter days by Paul Rosser<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Red-letter-days-by-Paul-Rosser.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-fe38754a-2e59-4b46-9904-29812ace5ed2\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How fair to claimants and advisors is HMRC\u2019s seemingly scattergun approach to issuing FIS letters? Here Paul Rosser shares some thoughts. Back in 2022, it became apparent that some companies which had submitted a claim for R&amp;D tax relief subsequently received a letter from HMRC\u2019s Fraud Investigation Service (FIS), which stated that the R&amp;D claim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-june-july-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794","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=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2796,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions\/2796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}