If an HMRC official has an enquiry target to meet, they will look at the Revenue-generated list of potential taxpayers, rather than try to track down potential evaders from the electoral roll. This means that ordinary law-abiding taxpayers will end up paying more, because the majority of enquiries will be directed at them. |
The Chancellor is now trying to push as many taxpayers as possible from self-employment to PAYE by adopting aggressive attitudes towards employment status classification. He's targeting pubs and clubs for tax avoidance, casual workers for NIC [National Insurance Contribution] avoidance, people who haven't filed tax returns when they should have, pub workers tips, and the fishing industry. |
The ever-demanding needs of central government and the NHS are leading to a new tax collection approach being adopted. Chancellor Brown is, and always has been, under political pressure to increase the tax take without increasing headline rates of tax. |