{"id":734,"date":"2021-04-22T14:43:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T14:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/?p=734"},"modified":"2021-04-22T14:43:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T14:43:20","slug":"seeing-reason-by-robin-williamson-mbe-cta-fellow-author-and-commentator-on-tax-welfare-and-public-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/seeing-reason-by-robin-williamson-mbe-cta-fellow-author-and-commentator-on-tax-welfare-and-public-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Seeing reason&#8221; by Robin Williamson MBE CTA (Fellow), author and commentator on tax, welfare and public policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The tribunal is the arbiter of fact when it comes to the reasonable excuse defence, says Robin Williamson, who explains all with reference to some recent cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If a taxpayer satisfies HMRC or a tribunal that his failure is not deliberate, and that he has a reasonable excuse, then he is not liable for any penalty. It is not a question of his incurring a penalty, then being let off for reasonable excuse; no penalty arises in the first place.<\/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\/04\/Seeing-reason.pdf\">Seeing-reason<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Seeing-reason.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tribunal is the arbiter of fact when it comes to the reasonable excuse defence, says Robin Williamson, who explains all with reference to some recent cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-october-november-2020"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","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=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}