DEALING WITH REVENUE INQUIRIES<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2018Si vis pacem, para bellum\u2019 (\u2018If you want peace, prepare for war\u2019) \u2013 <\/i>Vegetius, 4th<\/sup> century<\/p>\n Why use David Kirk & Co. Ltd.?<\/b><\/p>\n Because we generally win \u2013 that\u2019s why!\u00a0 Well over a third of our business comes from Revenue inquiries, and frequently in cases where there is some uncertainty as to the law and considerable risk to the business.<\/p>\n With PAYE, National Insurance and the Construction Industry Scheme, you are required to pay tax on other people\u2019s income besides your own, and if you get something wrong the extra money required to put it right has already gone to somebody else.\u00a0 That is why inquiries in these fields can easily cause bankruptcy.<\/p>\n Dealing with a Revenue assault effectively requires above all the right strategy.\u00a0 There is no single solution that fits every case; however, it is our belief that where we have won significant victories against HMRC it is because we have had the right strategy from the beginning and followed it through.\u00a0 We are particularly effective in cases that have significant uncertainty about the tax law in question, or where director- or partner-level attention is required on a continuous basis.\u00a0 All work will either be done by David Kirk in person, or by other specialists chosen by him for their particular expertise.<\/p>\n Some seven-figure success stories<\/b><\/p>\n Accommodation benefit.<\/i><\/b>\u00a0 Our client was an employment agency who provided housing as well as work for migrant workers.\u00a0 HMRC considered the housing to be a taxable benefit and sought to assess PAYE and class 1A NI.\u00a0 We resisted this on the basis that the workers were not employees (easy) and nor agency workers within the meaning of the tax legislation (much more difficult), and so the PAYE and class 1A rules did not apply.\u00a0 Tax saved: \u00a32.75 million <\/b>(based on our estimate of what was at stake).<\/p>\n Managed service company.<\/i><\/b>\u00a0 Our client was an umbrella company active in several sectors, including construction and medical.\u00a0 HMRC asserted that it was a managed service company (MSC) \u2013 a deadly status that gives the directors personal liability for PAYE.\u00a0 We resisted an Information and Documents Notice on the basis that HMRC had already decided (in a VAT inspection) that the company was providing services and not staff, which is incompatible with MSC status.\u00a0 HMRC backed off after an action had been lodged with the Tax Tribunal.\u00a0 Tax saved: \u00a314 million <\/b>(HMRC estimate of the amount at stake).<\/p>\n Construction Industry Scheme (CIS).\u00a0 <\/i><\/b>Our client was an employment agency active in the construction sector, and had been failing to operate the CIS in its payments to umbrella companies.\u00a0 HMRC were claiming substantial sums on the basis that if one payment under a particular contract was caught, they all were.\u00a0 We analysed the contractual relationships, and defended the client on the basis that there were no contracts with the umbrella companies at all. Tax saved: \u00a31.1 million<\/b> (based on HMRC\u2019s initial demand).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DEALING WITH REVENUE INQUIRIES \u2018Si vis pacem, para bellum\u2019 (\u2018If you want peace, prepare for war\u2019) \u2013 Vegetius, 4th century Why use David Kirk & Co. Ltd.? Because we generally win \u2013 that\u2019s why!\u00a0 Well over a third of our business comes from Revenue inquiries, and frequently in cases where there is some uncertainty as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/david-kirk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/david-kirk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/david-kirk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david-kirk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david-kirk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/david-kirk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/david-kirk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/334\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/david-kirk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}