{"id":53228,"date":"2015-02-02T12:15:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T12:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ec336d715ef47843593f2190eb747371"},"modified":"2015-02-02T12:15:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T12:15:25","slug":"news-story-hmrc-seeks-views-on-tax-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=53228","title":{"rendered":"News story: HMRC seeks views on tax penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A discussion document published today is seeking views by 11 May about potential improvements to how <abbr title=\"HM Revenue and Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr> applies penalties for failing to pay what is owed or to meet deadlines for returns or registration. <\/p>\n<p>As <abbr title=\"HM Revenue and Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr> designs a tax system for the modern, digital world, it wants to ensure that its approach to penalties also keeps up to date with both technology and behavioural science. <abbr title=\"HM Revenue and Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr> is considering whether and how it should differentiate between those who deliberately and persistently fail to meet administrative deadlines or to pay what they should on time, and those who make occasional and genuine errors for which other responses might be more appropriate.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"HM Revenue and Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr> is looking for feedback from individuals and businesses. The purpose of the discussion is to seek views on the policy design and any suitable possible alternatives, before consulting later on a specific proposal for reform. <\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"HM Revenue and Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr> Penalties: a Discussion Document can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/hmrc-penalties-a-discussion-document\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/hmrc-penalties-a-discussion-document<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is asking for views on how it might strengthen the effectiveness of its penalties regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}