HMRC backs down on unannounced home visits
Plans to make unannounced visits to private homes falls by the wayside in latest HMRC powers consultation
The taxman has backed down on plans to make unannounced visits to private
residences.
In updating its powers HM Revenue & Customs had suggested it wanted to be
able to make visits to private homes without a search warrant.
But in its latest set of consultation papers it stated that visists to
private residences should only be by agreement or with a warrant.
Grant Thornton national tax office head Francseca Lagerberg welcomed the
statement, saying that its earlier plans had caused a ‘furore’.
Further reading:
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the consultation documents here