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1,2 Hector is coming for you..

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    1,2 Hector is coming for you..

    HMRC trawling social media to find evidence of tax fraud - 25 Feb 2013 - Computing News

    This was covered on Radio 4 this morning. HMRC are now trawling social media of those it suspects of tax evasion and fraud. So if you are not paying tax, and lording it up on fancy holidays or restraunts then they will gather the evidence and come after you...
    If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. - Red Adair

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    Originally posted by Bluespider View Post
    HMRC trawling social media to find evidence of tax fraud - 25 Feb 2013 - Computing News

    This was covered on Radio 4 this morning. HMRC are now trawling social media of those it suspects of tax evasion and fraud. So if you are not paying tax, and lording it up on fancy holidays or restraunts then they will gather the evidence and come after you...
    A nearly three year old article is news on Radio 4? Why don't they use Twitter or Reddit to get their news stories, like all the other useless hacks?

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      #3
      This is not going to affect contractors. What will affect us is avoidance(i.e. PSC) being deemed evasion. Retrospectively applied. Followed by APNs. And bank account raids.

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        #4
        I'm not paying any UK tax I spend it in sunny tax havens

        Love Starbucks, Google etc.
        Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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          #5
          Amazing the universe does not revolve around IT contractors.

          Ebay traders will be more hit by this than we will.
          "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
          - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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