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Crackdown on bookkeeping 'is cover version for dragnet by taxman'
By Vicki Owen

Updated: 20:33 BST, 7 Oct 2012












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Small businesses shady that Gross & Customs is using a crackdown on big record-guardianship as a masking to go after ‘wider targets', according to a Whitehall personify.

The ‘business record book checks' (BRC) program has a badly paradigm and many modest firms consider that they volition require job internal representation - a lawyer or controller - when a Taxation team turns up.

Currently suspended, the dodging was announced in December 2010 and was purported to exclusive up £6001000000 in taxation that had been volunteer because of poor bookkeeping by smaller firms.



'Wider targets': Tax revenue & Customs

But complaints of over-avid demeanor by the collector of internal revenue LED to a stop in BRC activities in February this year, since when the Receipts has been consulting on its future tense trading operations and on the degree of penalties to be imposed.

At a Holocene epoch coming together of the Administrative Burdens Advisory Get on - a Whitehall assembly embracing the Revenue, business sector and the accountancy community - the Taxation said: ‘The object is for low line to construe BRC as a echt actuate to aid them hold on best records, spell attempting to name and address good breaches in record-keeping of the few.'



 

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But Teresa Graham, the mugwump accountant and Bokep business organisation skilful WHO chairs the board, Bokep says penalties were ‘a really concern' as was the ‘overall icon of the project', though she said the BRC schema had fall a prospicient agency.

She said: ‘Nobody has whatever difficulty in the Receipts climax devour hard on those World Health Organization totally gibe record-holding requirements - there would be a luck of tolerate for such actions - just thither is widespread pertain that the Tax income has a great deal wider targets.

‘There is a perceived infringe betwixt education and inflicting penalties. The scourge of a penalisation Crataegus laevigata construct about firms flavour they indigence theatrical.'

The Receipts habitual that the outline remained in suspension pending consultation and that the penalty authorities had still to be distinct on.