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30th September 2010
PCG surveys contractors over HMRC
PCG has conducted a survey to establish contractors’ opinions on the current tax system adopted by HMRC.
The organisation - formerly known as the Professional Contractors Group – polled its membership on the issue and found that 71 per cent believe HMRC should be split into two divisions for revenue and customs respectively.
Some 15.6 per cent of respondents said HMRC should continue to operate in the same way, with 13.4 per cent claiming to be unsure about the best system to adopt.
"This poll provoked an interesting debate on the forums with the 'no' camp arguing that whilst waste should be cut, splitting them up will not mean anything improves, but will merely add turmoil into the process," the organisation said.
"One proposal was to go a stage further and suggest a three way split and others intimated that the route of the problem was in the complexities of the tax system."
Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, recently said that recent tax errors by the HMRC are proof that the organisation is struggling with the current self-assessment system.
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