{"id":1340,"date":"2016-06-06T11:51:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T11:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2016-06-06T11:51:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T11:51:29","slug":"hmrc-ongoing-corporation-tax-crackdown-is-an-effective-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/hmrc-ongoing-corporation-tax-crackdown-is-an-effective-success\/","title":{"rendered":"HMRC: ongoing corporation tax crackdown is an \u2018effective\u2019 success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing crackdown on corporation tax is proving to be an \u2018effective\u2019 success, according to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>HMRC claims that by placing an increasing number of large firms under \u201can exceptional level of scrutiny,\u201d it is winning the war against corporation tax avoidance and evasion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We focus our resources on those businesses we think least likely to be playing by the rules, spending much less time with the majority who are open and transparent with us,&#8221; said an HMRC spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>HMRC also claimed that it had \u201cover two thirds of the UK\u2019s 800 largest businesses under active investigation at any one time,\u201d despite the fact that a typical investigation has been found to take in excess of 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>A number of leading experts have praised HMRC\u2019s clampdown on large firms\u2019 manipulation of transfer pricing methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing crackdown on corporation tax is proving to be an \u2018effective\u2019 success, according to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}