{"id":1737,"date":"2017-02-23T10:09:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T10:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2017-02-23T10:09:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T10:09:17","slug":"hmrc-defends-making-tax-digital-timescale-house-lords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/hmrc-defends-making-tax-digital-timescale-house-lords\/","title":{"rendered":"HMRC defends Making Tax Digital timescale at House of Lords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taxpayers, businesses and HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) alike will \u201clearn very quickly\u201d from the Government\u2019s year-long Making Tax Digital (MTD) pilot scheme, which will be phased in from April this year.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The comments come from Jim Harra, director general for customer strategy and tax design at HMRC, who defended MTD yesterday before the House of Lords Finance Bill Sub-Committee.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the civil servants behind HMRC\u2019s digital tax reforms have said that the Revenue\u2019s recent consultations into the matter were \u201cthe richest [they have ever] seen the department have,\u201d and that forthcoming trials will iron out any issues in good time.<\/p>\n<p>HMRC representatives denied previous claims put forward by the House of Commons Treasury Committee that the project\u2019s timeline \u2013 which will see landlords and sole traders required to report to the Revenue with quarterly digital updates from April 2018 onwards \u2013 was \u201cwholly unrealistic\u201d and over-ambitious.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Harra insisted that the department, and MTD users alike, would \u201clearn very quickly\u201d from a year-long pilot scheme due to be opened up to around 400,000 people this April.<\/p>\n<p>His sentiment was echoed by Making Tax Digital programme manager Theresa Middleton, who said that HMRC would have \u201cmuch more confidence\u201d in the plans, and would have addressed any shortcomings, long before MTD is phased in as mandatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxpayers, businesses and HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) alike will \u201clearn very quickly\u201d from the Government\u2019s year-long Making Tax Digital (MTD) pilot scheme, which will be phased in from April this year.<\/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\/1737"}],"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=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}