The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals ……………………………………………………………Policy News Journal
HMRC ‘Building Our Future’ 9 September 2016
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has announced the next stage of their Building Our Future transformation to their staff, with some restructuring of their high-level organisation.
As you will know HMRC is transforming into a smaller, more highly-skilled operation, based in fewer locations and offering modern, digital services to customers.
As HMRC has been evolving what they do, and where they do it, as part of this transformation, they have also kept their organisational structure under review, to ensure that it is fit for the future and that it supports their new digital and collaborative ways of working.
As a result, HMRC has now decided to make some further changes to how they are structured. From October, they will be reorganising the Directorates in their four existing lines of business into three new groups:
Customer Strategy and Tax Design A new Customer Strategy and Tax Design group, which brings together the customer strategy, tax policy, process design and tax assurance teams, led by Jim Harra.
Customer Service An expanded Customer Service group, which includes all of the big operational teams, led by Ruth Owen.
Customer Compliance A Customer Compliance group, which will tackle non-compliance and enforcement for all customer groups, including large businesses, led by Jennie Granger.
The three new groups will be supported by the existing Transformation and Corporate Services areas.
The reorganisation builds on other structural changes that HMRC has made over the past couple of years and it will support them to put a greater focus on customers, to change how they provide services to help people get their taxes right, and how they target their response to those who deliberately seek to cheat the system.
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Tax fraudster ordered to pay up or face jail 13 September 2016
A self-employed salesman and entertainer had not submitted a Self Assessment return for more than 14 years; HMRC ordered him to pay back £53,498 or face 12 months in jail.
HMRC found that Jeffrey Alan Brown, 51, a self-employed salesman and entertainer, had not submitted a Self Assessment return for more than 14 years. This was despite earning more than £300,000 in sales commission from a glazing company and £6,900 as a football match entertainer.
Brown was ordered to pay back £53,498, which included interest, within three months or he will face 12 months in jail.He had previously been sentenced for tax fraud in April 2016.
Zoe Ellerbeck, Assistant Director, Fraud Investigation Service, HMRC, said:
“This is a case of a well-known local personality and TV character flaunting the law as if it didn’t apply to him. Brown had submitted tax returns in the past and therefore was well aware of his tax obligations. This was deliberate theft from taxpayers by Brown. We are determined to recover stolen tax from criminals who deprive the UK of vital funds. Deliberately evading tax in this way is insulting to the honest taxpayers but HMRC is determined to clamp down on financial crime and Brown is now repaying the proceeds of his criminal behaviour. If you know of anyone who is committing tax fraud you can report them by calling our 24-hour hotline on 0800 59 5000.”
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