{"id":57479,"date":"2015-06-02T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=866dd9df696f64d0fed6f19328722863"},"modified":"2015-06-02T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T13:00:00","slug":"press-release-week-left-for-solicitors-to-settle-tax-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=57479","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Week left for solicitors to settle tax bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Solicitors have until 9 June 2015 to tell <abbr title=\"HM Revenue and Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr> about any undeclared income and pay the tax they owe.<\/p>\n<p>By taking this chance to come forward voluntarily, any penalties will be lower than if <abbr title=\"HM Revenue and Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr> has to investigate their tax affairs. Anyone who does not pay what they owe faces a penalty of up to 100% of the tax due, or more if it is offshore income.<\/p>\n<p>Caroline Addison, Head of Campaigns, <abbr title=\"HM Revenue and Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr>, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This disclosure scheme gives firms a fair chance to come forward and avoid tough penalties but we will not hesitate to investigate and penalise those still evading tax they owe once this opportunity passes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We don\u2019t think it\u2019s too much to ask that solicitors abide by the law and pay the tax they owe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Solicitors\u2019 Tax Campaign, launched in December last year, is the latest voluntary disclosure opportunity for specific groups of taxpayers to get their tax affairs in order on the best available terms.<\/p>\n<p>Previous campaigns have included medical professionals, plumbers, tutors and coaches, electricians, online traders, landlords and health professionals. These campaigns have raised over \u00a31 billion from voluntary disclosures and <abbr title=\"HM Revenue and Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr> follow-ups.<\/p>\n<p>These campaigns offer businesses of all sizes the ideal opportunity to come forward voluntarily, pay the tax they owe and avoid a <abbr title=\"HM Revenue and Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr> investigation.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, plus help and support on the campaign, solicitors can phone a dedicated helpline on 0300 013 4749 or visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/solicitors-tax-campaign\">www.gov.uk\/solicitors-tax-campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solicitors have a week to pay the tax they owe on undeclared income or face hefty penalties, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) warned today.<\/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\/57479"}],"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=57479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}