Tax & Accounting News

Barry Lewis speaks out against HMRC tactics

19/02/2007

Barry Lewis, senior partner at Harris Lipman, has recently spoken out in Accountancy Age and other publications regarding the increasingly aggressive stance taken by HM Revenue and Customs in attempting to extend corporation tax enquiries into directors’ personal tax affairs.

Barry believes that HM Revenue and Customs have gone from being a user-friendly department into a zero-tolerance organisation, and are persecuting the weak with scatter-gun tactics. HM Revenue and Customs deny that they have changed their policy, but other tax advisers agree that in many cases there is little justification for extending enquiries into directors’ personal affairs.

To read Barry’s opinion column, click here.

To read the news article, click here.

 

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