Named and shamed - tax cheats
Discussion
krallicious said:
A hairdresser didn't pay for three months and should have paid 17k in tax? fk me, I chose the wrong career.
No no no - read it carefully - he should have paid £29k in tax! £17k is the penalty. (Edit - Crap, beaten to it. didn't page refresh).Hate to say it, but when I look through that list I see 9 people/companies who are struggling under the current economic climate. Not to mention the tax that HMRC is expecting is usually estimated several times more than it really is. The penalty is just the final nail in the coffin for many of these companies which just bludgeons people into giving up and walking away.
Behind everyone of these "defaulters" is a future benefits claimant.
allnighter said:
So they are tax defaulters, not tax cheats, in other words, people who are honest about their tax affairs vis-avis the governments but are probably struggling to pay their tax bill, as opposed to the tax cheat whom we know nothing about.Easy targets then... nothing new HMRC.
It does use the word 'deliberate' in the title. Suggests (and I may be wrong) a determination not to pay rather than a genuine inability.V8mate said:
It does use the word 'deliberate' in the title. Suggests (and I may be wrong) a determination not to pay rather than a genuine inability.
Look at the periods that are listed though. It's pretty obvious that some have a year missing (possibly a bad year?) and some have quarters missing (possibly a bad quarter?).The idea that each and every one of these people decided not to pay HMRC and buy a yacht is daft.
---and how does a hairdresser get an assessment of £29k for 1 quarter!!!???? Let alone a penalty of £17k?? Have we lost all sense of proportion? I swear my last haircut in the UK was £10 - are you really telling me that some barber in the UK cuts 2000+ heads of hair a month? So 80 per day??!
krallicious said:
V8mate said:
£17k is the penalty attached to a tax bill of £29k.
Oops. Will try to correctly read the chart next time. So he was meant to pay 29k tax for the 3 month period or is the 17k tied up in that amount and his tax would have only been 12k had he paid it in time?JDRoest said:
Look at the periods that are listed though. It's pretty obvious that some have a year missing (possibly a bad year?) and some have quarters missing (possibly a bad quarter?).
The idea that each and every one of these people decided not to pay HMRC and buy a yacht is daft.
---and how does a hairdresser get an assessment of £29k for 1 quarter!!!???? Let alone a penalty of £17k?? Have we lost all sense of proportion? I swear my last haircut in the UK was £10 - are you really telling me that some barber in the UK cuts 2000+ heads of hair a month? So 80 per day??!
Ha ha - you don't know many wimmin do you?? £60 - £100 for a snip n blow job in some places, and that's about half an hours work. Do that with 6 staff doing 8 hour days, it soon adds up to quite a nice little earner if you're in the right neighbourhood.The idea that each and every one of these people decided not to pay HMRC and buy a yacht is daft.
---and how does a hairdresser get an assessment of £29k for 1 quarter!!!???? Let alone a penalty of £17k?? Have we lost all sense of proportion? I swear my last haircut in the UK was £10 - are you really telling me that some barber in the UK cuts 2000+ heads of hair a month? So 80 per day??!
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