Taxpayers To Be Presumed Guilty

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Taxpayers To Be Presumed Guilty Taxpayers can no longer expect to be presumed innocent by the taxman under proposed changes that will increase penalties for unpaid tax.


Under the changes, introduced in the Commons last week, taxpayers will be forced to second-guess assessments from HM Revenue & Customs inspectors and scrutinise the work of their own accountants or pay hefty penalties for mistakes.

... Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of tax at the Association for Chartered Certified Accountants, said it was “unfair” to expect taxpayers to understand a complicated tax system better than their advisers and Revenue authorities.

The 'justice' system is debauched, yet again. The government bureaucrats are given more power to hurt people, yet again. And the government squeezes more out of the taxpayer, yet again.

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