What does HMRC dislike more than anything else? Is it the people who cheat the system by deliberately evading their taxes? One might think so but looking at HMRC organisation and resourcing regarding direct taxes over recent years the answer would probably have to be 'tax avoidance'.
Senior Revenue officials like to conjoin the concepts of evasion and avoidance as though they were more or less equivalent. In 2005 Dave Hartnett announced a goal to make tax avoidance 'not worthwhile' by 2008 thus firmly placing 'avoidance' in the naughty corner of the public arena. As a result perhaps of seeing avoidance as an evil to be stamped out HMRC's Anti-Avoidance Group (AAG) has grown significantly in number with officers now...
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What does HMRC dislike more than anything else? Is it the people who cheat the system by deliberately evading their taxes? One might think so but looking at HMRC organisation and resourcing regarding direct taxes over recent years the answer would probably have to be 'tax avoidance'.
Senior Revenue officials like to conjoin the concepts of evasion and avoidance as though they were more or less equivalent. In 2005 Dave Hartnett announced a goal to make tax avoidance 'not worthwhile' by 2008 thus firmly placing 'avoidance' in the naughty corner of the public arena. As a result perhaps of seeing avoidance as an evil to be stamped out HMRC's Anti-Avoidance Group (AAG) has grown significantly in number with officers now...
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