{"id":83434,"date":"2017-08-15T07:12:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T07:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=1e311493572edf3eae69c9ab6f8cecab"},"modified":"2017-08-15T07:12:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T07:12:20","slug":"this-weeks-opinion-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=83434","title":{"rendered":"This week&#8217;s opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\">\n<p>Much has been written about\u00a0<em>Gekko<\/em>\u00a0(TC6029) and the justified criticisms of HMRC\u2019s litigation stance made by the judge. But the case has wider implication and shines an important light on the way the system operates in practice.\u00a0<em>Gekko<\/em>\u00a0concerned minor VAT inaccuracies, two of which involved sums of \u00a359 and \u00a388. (In the end, the tribunal did not accept that there were inaccuracies but that is not relevant to the point I am making here.) Yet these tiny amounts resulted in a flood of paperwork \u2013 gobbledegook was how the taxpayer described them \u2013 including calculations &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Much has been written about&nbsp;<em>Gekko<\/em>&nbsp;(TC6029) and the justified criticisms of HMRC&rsquo;s litigation stance made by the judge. But the case has wider implication and shines an important light on the way the system operates in practice.&nbsp;<em>Gekko<\/em>&nbsp;concerned minor VAT inaccuracies, two of which involved sums of &pound;59 and &pound;88. (In the end, the tribunal did not accept that there were inaccuracies but that is not relevant to the point I am making here.) Yet these tiny amounts resulted in a flood of paperwork &ndash; gobbledegook was how the taxpayer described them &ndash; including calculations &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83434"}],"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=83434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}