HMRC Enquiries - How to Survive and Advise

FACE TO FACE COURSE INSTANCES

Course aims and objectives

The course provides a review of the current tax regime for HMRC Compliance Checks covering powers of access and inspection, penalties and reasonable excuse and how to advise clients through the investigation process.

The course will include:

• HMRC risk assessment techniques
• Selective reasons for compliance checks
• Information available to HMRC
• HMRC targeting and specialist compliance squads
• HMRC analytical methods
• The significant of business economics models
• Dealing with HMRC meetings
• HMRC powers to obtain information and documents
• Dealing with more serious enquiries
• Advising the client on providing information
• HMRC access to personal and private information
• Negotiating settlements and penalties
• Current hot topics and danger areas
• High risk clients and HMRC profiling techniques

WEBINAR INSTANCE ONLY

Course aims and objectives

To provide delegates with knowledge and also practical experience of dealing with HMRC. Recognising the different ways in which HMRC can undertake compliance checks, this will be a very wide ranging and practical course giving delegates the benefit of firsthand experience of the very latest HMRC activities and the defences we have using real life case examples.

The course will include:

• An introduction to HMRC powers
• The different types of compliance checks and how to recognise them
• How to prepare for and deal with the different types of check
• Clients rights and responsibilities
• Penalty Update
• Some useful tax cases
• HMRC Campaigns and task forces
• How to complain to/about HMRC
• Dispute Resolution