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1/7An excellent piece by @FayeBrownSky that lays bare the sinister behaviour of @HMRCgovuk in circumventing the sham Morse review to pursue innocent taxpayers ensnared in #LoanCharge schemes. The underhandedness of the HMRC approach cannot be overstated.

news.sky.com/story/hmrc-acc…

2/7 In 2017, at the time #hmrc was duping MPs and Parliament into legislating a retrospective tax change with a 20 year lookback, they were also concocting controversial changes to existing PAYE regulations, amending those rules retrospectively to give themselves yet another

3/7 weapon to bludgeon innocent taxpayers. Was Morse made aware in 2019 of this hitherto unknown, backup gun that HMRC was loading up as a reserve? Of course he wasn't. Yet here we are, 5 years after Morse and 20+ years after these schemes started and HMRC is still pursuing

4/7 people using rules it seems it's able to make up as it goes along. MPs were assured that Morse included "concessions" for pre-2010 years. This has proven to be worthless, much like #LoanCharge legislation itself which was effectively rendered meaningless by this s684 change.

5/7 The consequences of this will be huge and @JimHarraHMRC has been warned many, many times. Successive FSTs have also been fully briefed by tax and legal professionals like @keithmgordon , @SarahEGabbai , @DrOsitaMba and @Ray_McCann55. But it seems that nobody has any effective

6/7 oversight of this out of control Gov agency, including @HuddlestonNigel . HMRC can issue statements about "helping people deal with large bills" but the reality is very different. Forced to sell homes, bankruptcy, family breakdown, careers ended and, sadly, lives ended.

7/7 Like #PostOfficeScandal , this appears to be another mess that @Conservatives will leave for @UKLabour to clean up. @jamesmurray_ldn and @RachelReevesMP must live up to their commitments to intervene when a new Gov is in place. @LCAG_2019 @loanchargeAPPG #hmrc #s684