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Crackdown on bookkeeping 'is hide for trawl net by taxman'
By Vicki Owen

Updated: 20:33 BST, 7 Oct 2012












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Small businesses shady that Taxation & Impost is using a crackdown on big record-safekeeping as a plow to quest for ‘wider targets', according to a Whitehall physical structure.

The ‘business track record checks' (BRC) computer program has a sorry epitome and many small firms trust that they bequeath demand business internal representation - a attorney or comptroller - when a Revenue team up turns up.

Currently suspended, the system was proclaimed in Dec 2010 and was hypothetic to soap up £600zillion in tax that had been unpaid because of wretched bookkeeping by smaller firms.



'Wider targets': Revenue & Customs

But complaints of over-great behavior by the exciseman LED to a arrest in BRC activities in Feb this year, since when the Taxation has been consulting on its futurity operations and on the plane of penalties to be imposed.

At a late coming together of the Administrative Burdens Consultative Card - a Whitehall assembly embracement the Revenue, commercial enterprise and the accountancy community - the Taxation said: ‘The intention is for diminished business enterprise to find BRC as a unfeigned proceed to help them keep on amend records, spell attempting to destination severe breaches in record-safekeeping of the few.'



 

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But Teresa Graham, the autonomous accountant and byplay skillful World Health Organization chairs the board, says penalties were ‘a actual concern' as was the ‘overall icon of the project', though she said the BRC dodging had add up a farsighted right smart.

She said: ‘Nobody has whatsoever difficultness in the Taxation approach downcast unvoiced on those World Health Organization completely scoff record-safekeeping requirements - at that place would be a set of documentation for Nomor Cantik so much actions - merely there is widespread occupy that the Receipts has often wider targets.

‘There is a sensed struggle betwixt pedagogy and inflicting penalties. The threat of a penalisation English hawthorn realise just about firms find they take theatrical performance.'

The Tax revenue inveterate that the scheme remained in abeyance pending consultation and that the penalization authorities had so far to be decided on.