report suspected abuse of IR35?

quietriot

mgdavid wrote: »

Sarcasm - the lowest form of wit.

[citation needed]

PlutoinCapricorn

caronoel wrote: »

Wow!

What a helpful and friendly set of responses.

Not to worry - I've reported my suspicions to HMRC and will let them handle it

Each of us have a civic duty to report suspected tax evasion.

But they work via an umbrella company!

chrismac1

I think the bird has flown, Pluto, and the green-eyed monster won the day.

PlutoinCapricorn

Evening Chrismac! You are probably right.

mgdavid

quietriot wrote: »

[citation needed]

Attributed to Oscar Wilde, didn't mention it before as thought everyone knew that!

MABLE

caronoel wrote: »

If you are going to try a put down - please do try to get the quotation correct.

There's a good little supporter of tax evaders.

With respect you sound quite an embittered person.

pleasedelete

caronoel wrote: »

Wow!

What a helpful and friendly set of responses.

Not to worry - I've reported my suspicions to HMRC and will let them handle it

Each of us have a civic duty to report suspected tax evasion.

Nothing in your post suggests any aspect of tax evasion.

Avoidance and evasion are not the same. Someone with your acute criticism of the language used by others should be well aware of the definitions and thus the differences.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw bricks and can also come across as rather bitter (attributed to pleasedelete July 2015 when writing about caronoel)

Morganic

I have heard from more than one source, including a former employee of HMRC, that snitching out other taxpayers can lead to more attention by the HMRC to the snitcher as well as the snitchee.

Apparently a lot of such complaints are made by people who are annoyed with someone and use this as a form of revenge. Such rather dubious motivations have been found to have a non-zero correlation to dodgy tax tactics by the snitcher as well.

That, together with the risk that the snitchee will figure out the identity of the snitcher, means that I would personally never snitch on another. None of my beeswax.

PlutoinCapricorn

Interesting. Is it not possible to report someone anonymously?

zygurat789

Morganic wrote: »

I have heard from more than one source, including a former employee of HMRC, that snitching out other taxpayers can lead to more attention by the HMRC to the snitcher as well as the snitchee.

Apparently a lot of such complaints are made by people who are annoyed with someone and use this as a form of revenge. Such rather dubious motivations have been found to have a non-zero correlation to dodgy tax tactics by the snitcher as well.

That, together with the risk that the snitchee will figure out the identity of the snitcher, means that I would personally never snitch on another. None of my beeswax.

If someone is defrauding HMRC and you know it then surely it is your civic duty to report it just like any other crime.
All this talk of snitchees aren't they criminals?