Guilty until proved innocent?
The Treasury plan to shift the burden of proof in tax evasion cases onto those with undeclared offshore assets. But are they being too heavy-handed? And will HMRC be able to cope with the extra workload?
The Treasury plan to shift the burden of proof in tax evasion cases onto those with undeclared offshore assets. But are they being too heavy-handed? And will HMRC be able to cope with the extra workload?
Faced with growing numbers of “pension liberators” duping people into transferring their pensions into fake “QROPS”, HMRC has been given new powers to crack down on the fraudsters in the March 2014 Budget.