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Legal to sell you old reciepts?
darbooka
Posts: 489 Forumite
in Cutting tax
Is it legal and acceptable to sell receipts, such as taxi, petrol and similar expense recipts to a company or person who may use it for their tax purposes or expense accounting?
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Errr No! Not in theory you cant sell something knowing it is being used to facilitate tax fraud!
Nonetheless, I dont see how you could be caught so long as there are no personal details on it. Not sure how you'd go about advertising it though without getting in hot water
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Isn't it legal for a comapny or taxpayer to buy someone else's losses and expenditures?
In any event, perhaps there are people out there who collect old reciepts such as those who collect used airline tickets, old phonebooks, and whatever. If you just went and listed some old recipets on eBay would that be a problem?0 -
selling receipts isn't illegal, using them for fraudulent purposes is..I no longer work in Council Tax Recovery but instead work as a specialist Council Tax paralegal assisting landlords and Council Tax payers with council tax disputes and valuation tribunals. My views are my own reading of the law and you should always check with the local authority in question.0
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Darbooka
Have you thought of selling your TV licence payment receipt to make a bit of money?0 -
CIS wrote:selling receipts isn't illegal, using them for fraudulent purposes is..
Selling them with the knowledge that the intended use is fraudlent is conspiracy to defraud.0 -
Dear RayWolfe,RayWolfe wrote:Darbooka
Have you thought of selling your TV licence payment receipt to make a bit of money?
Thanks for your offer to buy my TV license.
Notwistanding the fact that I would not sell a receipt to anyone if I knew that they were going to misuse it, the TV license is unlikely to be of use to anyone. Furthermore, a TV license has personal details on it and is not transferrable to the best of my knowledge. Besides, you and all your friends probably already have one;) so why would you need another?0 -
So if you have no idea what the buyer is going to do with it then it's ok?Bossyboots wrote:Selling them with the knowledge that the intended use is fraudlent is conspiracy to defraud.0 -
darbooka wrote:So if you have no idea what the buyer is going to do with it then it's ok?
Not necessarily although the onus would be on the prosecution to prove that you did know or should have reasonably known they would be used fraudulently. I think you would have a hard time persuading a jury that you had no idea anyone would or could use them to try to cheat the taxman.0
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