{"id":430,"date":"2020-12-03T15:12:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T15:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/?p=430"},"modified":"2020-12-03T15:12:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T15:12:59","slug":"hmrc-opens-300762-self-assessment-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/hmrc-opens-300762-self-assessment-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"HMRC opens 300,762 self assessment investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HMRC opened 300,762 investigations into self assessment tax returns, according to data released in 2019 for tax year 2016\/17. The tax authority collected \u00a31.2bn in extra tax from investigations into self-assessment tax returns in 2018\/19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Analysis by accountants Moore (formerly Moore Stephens) shows the level of risk, warning taxpayers to be careful when filing tax returns as mistakes, although often not deliberate, act as a red flag for HMRC, which can lead to investigations and even penalties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download the full article at the link below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/HMRC-opens-300762-self-assessment-investigations.pdf\">HMRC-opens-300762-self-assessment-investigations<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/HMRC-opens-300762-self-assessment-investigations.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HMRC opened 300,762 investigations into self assessment tax returns, according to data released in 2019 for tax year 2016\/17. The tax authority collected \u00a31.2bn in extra tax from investigations into self-assessment tax returns in 2018\/19.<br \/>\nAnalysis by accountants Moore (formerly Moore Stephens) shows the level of risk, warning taxpayers to be careful when filing tax returns as mistakes, although often not deliberate, act as a red flag for HMRC, which can lead to investigations and even penalties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive-articles-february-march-2020"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","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=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}