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Until 2019, Customs Handling of Import & Export Freight (CHIEF) is the computer system of the United Kingdom's revenue and customs services, HMRC, used for managing the declaration and movement of goods into and out of the United Kingdom and allowing UK traders to communicate with counterpart customs systems in the other member states of the European Union.
Around 350 HMRC employees are involved with Connect, who work with an analytical compliance environment. [1] Connect was developed by BAE Systems Applied Intelligence (former Detica in Surrey) for £45m. [2] [3] From September 2016, Connect has interfaced with financial information from British Overseas Territories; these have been known tax ...
Initiatives announced in 2010 suggest an increasing willingness on the part of HMRC to use retrospective action to counter avoidance schemes, even when no warning has been given. [89] The UK Government has pushed the initiative led by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on base erosion and profit shifting. [90]
K2 was an offshore wealth management scheme in which salaries of individuals in the United Kingdom were channelled through shell corporations in Jersey, Channel Islands.In June 2012, media reporting of people using K2 for the purposes of tax avoidance was followed by the United Kingdom's Prime Minister David Cameron characterising the scheme as "morally wrong". [1]
File:The Tax Avoidance Schemes (Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (UKSI 2015-948).pdf
Tax noncompliance is a range of activities that are unfavorable to a government's tax system. This may include tax avoidance, which is tax reduction by legal means, and tax evasion which is the illegal non-payment of tax liabilities. [1] The use of the term "noncompliance" is used differently by different authors. [2]
In 2011, HMRC, the UK tax collection agency stated that it would continue to crack down on tax evasion, with the goal of collecting £18 billion in revenue before 2015. [27] In 2010, HMRC began a voluntary amnesty program that targeted middle-class professionals and raised £500 million. [28]
IR35 is the United Kingdom's anti-avoidance tax legislation, the intermediaries legislation contained in Chapter 8 of Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003.The legislation is designed to tax 'disguised' employment at a rate similar to employment.