{"id":624,"date":"2021-03-08T17:24:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T17:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/?p=624"},"modified":"2021-03-08T17:24:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T17:24:58","slug":"case-defeats-cost-hmrc-millions-in-legal-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/case-defeats-cost-hmrc-millions-in-legal-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Case defeats cost HMRC millions in legal costs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HMRC spent more than \u00a32m in legal costs following lost cases in 2019\/20, according to research by law firm Pinsent Masons. This represented an 88% hike in the amount HMRC shelled out in legal costs to taxpayers for the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 2018\/19 tax year, the taxman settled 34 cases, costing HMRC some \u00a31.34m. In 2019\/20 that had jumped to 43 cases, costing it more than \u00a32.5m.<\/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\/2021\/03\/Case_defeats_cost_HMRC.docx.pdf\">Case_defeats_cost_HMRC.docx<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Case_defeats_cost_HMRC.docx.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HMRC spent more than \u00a32m in legal costs following lost cases in 2019\/20, according to research by law firm Pinsent Masons. This represented an 88% hike in the amount HMRC shelled out in legal costs to taxpayers for the period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-february-march-2021"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","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=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}