New approach is designed to boost HMRC’s debt collection capacity
HMRC has announced that it will use private sector debt collection agencies during 2010-11 to collect an additional £140m of tax debt.
Contracts have been signed with:
An HMRC announcement about the new arrangement can be found here:
The recent National Audit Office report on HMRC’s Accounts for 2009/10 expressed serious concerns about the inadequacy of debt collection processes, and ICAS supports sensible moves to collect tax more effectively. However, the Institute wants to see the new approach applied with care, especially to ensure that only correct tax debts are pursued and only from the correct taxpayers.
Members encountering any difficulties with the new approach are asked to email us at
tax@icas.org.uk
with full details.
(Article created 29 July 2010)
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