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The process is wrong in that HRMC should be doing its job without having people pushing it to. I however refuse to give credit to Uber for finding loopholes an
by user5994461 6y ago
The process is wrong in that HRMC should be doing its job without having people pushing it to.
I however refuse to give credit to Uber for finding loopholes and trying to get some pseudo approval to use them. They know very well that they operating on the edge on the law and it might come back to bite them.
- londons_explore 6y ago> The process is wrong in that HRMC should be doing its job without having people pushing it to. Sure, but when they fail to do their job, any retrospective adjustments should be in favour of the taxpayer not the government. Imagine if a policeman stopped and searched your car (legally), and then later came round to your house saying "I didn't have my glasses on, so didn't search well enough. I want to search again".
- srtjstjsj 6y agoI don't understand what's wrong with doing a job completely instead of giving up halfway through.
- tolien 6y ago> Imagine if a policeman stopped and searched your car (legally), and then later came round to your house saying "I didn't have my glasses on, so didn't search well enough. I want to search again". Your analogy is invalid, though, because Uber made a legal declaration as part of their VAT return which was based on (at best) an untested interpretation of the law. Their original accounts weren’t the product of a search by HMRC that was incomplete, Uber gave them numbers which were later found to be wrong and asserted (under all the penalties associated with false tax declarations) that they were correct. A better analogy would be if you told a police officer that there weren’t any bodies in the boot of your car, but when they later looked (following a report from a passer-by) you had a collection of severed heads sitting in the back seat.