Tax Avoidance - COP 8 Procedures
Have you entered into a tax avoidance scheme?
Tax avoidance can be defined as the legal restructuring of your tax affairs to reduce your tax liability. However, when HMRC comes across a tax avoidance scheme, they strive to close it down and reclaim any lost tax.
Code of Practice 8 is used by HMRC Fraud Investigation Service for complex avoidance or other serious civil investigations where HMRC is not making a fraud allegation at the outset. The issues can still be high value, technical and intrusive, so any response should be carefully prepared before information is sent to HMRC.
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COP8 investigations do not follow the standardised formality of Civil Investigation of Fraud investigations undertaken under COP9. You will need our tax investigation advisor who has a specialist knowledge of HMRC powers and is used to dealing with intrusive, awkward, questions from experienced, bullying, tax inspectors who will not take no for an answer.
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