Nadim Zahawi

meltonblue said:


No way out for him surely. The decision to try and stick it out is going to backfire massively for both him and Sunak.
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Yeah, careless over tax matters is the alternative to fraudulent.
It means "didn't obey the rules and should have".

The reliance is that the general public hear 'careless' and take it for the usual meaning.
 
Gaudion M said:
He no doubt employs a small team of highly paid lawyers and tax advisers. Its deliberate 100% deliberate.

Are we supposed to believe he filled in a tax form on £Millions of income and did it 'carelessly' and made 'an innocent' error??
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Oh come on!!….
Who amongst us has not innocently and inadvertently sold a business and set up an offshore tax-avoiding trust for the benefit of immediate family and indirectly ones-self, then accidentally and innocently told fibs about it to the HMRC and your boss and, well, everyone else?
Be honest!
 
Bodicoteblue said:
Oh come on!!….
Who amongst us has not innocently and inadvertently sold a business and set up an offshore tax-avoiding trust for the benefit of immediate family and indirectly ones-self, then accidentally and innocently told fibs about it to the HMRC and your boss and, well, everyone else?
Be honest!
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Yeah I have.

I’m either doing that or sending those emoji stickers in WhatsApp accidentally (& sometimes awkwardly inappropriately).
 
Gaudion M said:
He no doubt employs a small team of highly paid lawyers and tax advisers. Its deliberate 100% deliberate.

Are we supposed to believe he filled in a tax form on £Millions of income and did it 'carelessly' and made 'an innocent' error??
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More like they tried claiming something which they were then told they couldn't legally claim it.
The type of thing that's impossible to prove is deliberate fraud.

The HMRC chief exec was at a Parliament committee today and said that a genuine error doesn't incur a penalty.
www.bbc.co.uk

No penalties for 'innocent' tax errors, HMRC boss says

Tory Party chairman Nadhim Zahawi is facing calls to resign, after it emerged he paid a penalty to HMRC.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

Whilst he would not comment on specific individuals, Mr Harra said: "There are no penalties for innocent errors in your tax affairs. So if you take reasonable care, but nevertheless make a mistake, whilst you will be liable for the tax and for interest if it's paid late, you would not be liable for a penalty.
"But if your error was as a result of carelessness, then legislation says that a penalty could apply in those circumstances."
 
MillionMilesAway said:
More like they tried claiming something which they were then told they couldn't legally claim it.
The type of thing that's impossible to prove is deliberate fraud.

The HMRC chief exec was at a Parliament committee today and said that a genuine error doesn't incur a penalty.
www.bbc.co.uk

No penalties for 'innocent' tax errors, HMRC boss says

Tory Party chairman Nadhim Zahawi is facing calls to resign, after it emerged he paid a penalty to HMRC.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

Whilst he would not comment on specific individuals, Mr Harra said: "There are no penalties for innocent errors in your tax affairs. So if you take reasonable care, but nevertheless make a mistake, whilst you will be liable for the tax and for interest if it's paid late, you would not be liable for a penalty.
"But if your error was as a result of carelessness, then legislation says that a penalty could apply in those circumstances."
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Listening to a couple of tax-accountant types on the radio saying that the level of fine is discretionary, but the level applied in zahawi’s case suggests the worst kind of non-cooperation and obstructivness.
I suppose the fact that he had his lawyers bang off some threatening letters to journalists would support that view.
 
Bodicoteblue said:
Listening to a couple of tax-accountant types on the radio saying that the level of fine is discretionary, but the level applied in zahawi’s case suggests the worst kind of non-cooperation and obstructivness.
I suppose the fact that he had his lawyers bang off some threatening letters to journalists would support that view.
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Yes, there was someone on the BBC a few days ago who said there are some sliding scales for penalties that are applied.
She said that she thought it was partial cooperation but with definite obstruction (or something like that).
 
So Sunak has sacked Zahawi from Cabinet for 'breaking the Ministerial Code', yet kept Braverman who did same and was sacked by Truss
 
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