“This consultation has been useful and will contribute to HMRC thinking on the future shape of service delivery through digital means. A key signal from this contribution is that Digital by Default should take an inclusive approach and not a mandated, statutory one. Over the coming months HMRC will be translating Digital by Default principles into possible new administrative models, and will engage further with stakeholders. It is hoped that such engagement will take place during summer into autumn 2012.”
Employment Consultation Forum
MINUTES PUBLISHED FROM THE JULY EMPLOYMENT CONSULTATION FORUM
17 August 2011 Karen Thomson Co-chairs the Employment Consultation Forum with David Ellis from HMRC. The minutes of the July meeting are now available and should any members have issues that they would like the CIPP to raise at the next meeting on 22 September, please email Karen.thomson@cipp.org.uk . Follow this link to view the ECF Minutes July 2011
Tax Agents and Advisers
CONSULTATION PUBLISHED PROPOSING TRANSFORMATION ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HMRC AND TAX AGENTS
8 June 2011 The consultation document, “ Establishing the future relationship between the Tax Agent community and HMRC ”, is based on two main proposals of Self Serve and Agent engagement. SELF SERVE - enrolling tax agents onto a database to provide additional security against fraud and to differentiate paid, professional tax agents from those in the voluntary and community sector and those who provide free help for friends and family. This will allow HMRC to place more control in the hands of enrolled agents by allowing them to carry out day to day transactions through “self serve”, for example, self authorisation to act on behalf of their clients, determining PAYE codes and managing payments and liabilities. Informed by responses to the consultation, implementation of “self serve” will be on a staged basis – starting with simple transactions. AGENT ENGAGEMENT - Understanding more about the total engagement an agent has with HMRC, creating an “agent view” that brings together details of the agent and their client portfolio, to help target and tailor HMRC support services to agents and, where necessary, identify poor practice. HMRC will work closely with representatives from the agent community to design the new service and safeguards. HMRC will arrange a number of meetings and workshops with agents who are members of the representative bodies and those who are non affiliated to seek their views first hand. The department will also continue to liaise regularly with the main representative bodies through the Joint Tax Agent Strategy Steering Group.
CIPP Policy News Journal
09/10/2012, Page 96 of 234
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