HMRC Disclosure Campaigns Raise Over £1.2 Billion

HMRC Disclosure Campaigns have successfully raised over £1.2billion in revenue as individuals and businesses are offered a window of opportunity to come forward with undeclared income or overstated expenditure ...

The HMRC Disclosure Campaigns are ongoing and still raising a huge amount of revenue!

Once the window for disclosure has closed, HMRC will then embark upon follow up compliance activity, which typically includes investigations and prosecutions. If the individual or business had come forward during the disclosure campaign window, they would have received a more sympathetic ear and reduced fines.

What may be of more interest is the amount of money HMRC is continuing to collect from compliance action. As an example, between February 2015 and March 2017, HMRC received just shy of £25m from the pursuit of doctors and dentists following the Tax Health Plan campaign. This was despite the campaign closing way back in June 2010.

During the same time frame, nearly £18m was extracted from online traders, even though the campaign closed in September 2012.

The top 5 revenue generating disclosure campaigns:

Tax Health Plan (doctors and dentists) – £24.7m
E marketplaces (online traders) – £17.7m
Property Sales (UK and foreign residential disposals) – £14.6m
Offshore New Disclosure Opportunity (UK based individuals/businesses with an offshore account/asset) – £10.8m
VAT Outstanding Returns (window for VAT registered businesses to get uptodate with late VAT returns) – £8.0m

These figures cover the period between 1 February 2015 and 31 March 2017.

Once a disclosure campaign window closes, you could imagine that a particular business sector lets out a collective sigh of relief and assume HMRC has moved on to different targets.

If you're at all concerned about HMRC Disclosure Campaigns and what it means for you, do give me a call on 01908 774323 or click here to ping me an email and let's see how I can help you.

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HMRC Disclosure Campaigns Raise Over £1.2 Billion

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