HMRC enquiry accountant in Harrow

Aspect enquiries - HMRC questions a specific item on a return. Full enquiries - a complete review of one or more years. Cross-tax enquiries - VAT, PAYE and CT looked at together. Code of Practice 8 - suspected avoidance. Code of Practice 9 (Contractual Disclosure Facility) - suspected serious fraud, where full voluntary disclosure protects against prosecution. Worldwide Disclosure Facility - overseas income or assets. We've represented clients across all of these.

HMRC inspectors are trained to extract information. An off-the-cuff phone call from a stressed taxpayer can introduce inconsistencies that drag the enquiry on for months and inflate penalties. Once we're on record as your representative, all communication routes through us - written, considered, and limited to exactly what HMRC are entitled to ask. We've closed enquiries in under 8 weeks that other firms had let drift for over a year.

HMRC penalties for inaccuracies range from 0% (innocent error, full unprompted disclosure) to 100% (deliberate and concealed). The same underpaid tax can attract very different penalties depending on behaviour and disclosure quality. By making timely, well-documented disclosures and engaging cooperatively, we routinely secure penalty reductions of 30-90% from HMRC's starting position. We will also negotiate Time-to-Pay arrangements where the resulting tax cannot be paid immediately.