Solicitor partnership firms or companies and different tax brackets

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Dear HM Revenue and Customs,

How many solicitors partnership firms and or directors of their companies have been investigated by HMRC as to which legal entity they are and have been paying tax through in the last 10 years.

How many have been found to have been to paying tax through the incorrect legal entity, such as those that set-up as a partnership firm and a company, with a similar sounding trading name to their partnership name.

Is it possible to be instructed through one legal entity yet be paid through a different legal entity?

Yours faithfully,

Ed Boyce

CCG Correspondence & Briefing, HM Revenue and Customs

Our ref: FOI2021/02533

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Dear Mr Boyce,

We are writing in response to your request for information, received 26
February.

Yours sincerely,

HMRC Freedom of Information Team

Dear FOI Central Team,

By way of explanation the question was asked, as we would like to know how to find out who £40,000 of public funds have been awarded to and through, what legal entity tax must be paid, as there appears to be several and multiple variants of the "trading name"; a partnership, a non-trading dissolved limited company, a trading limited company and a non-limited business.

It is also confusing and non-transparent to be awarded public funds via a contract if there is no actual contract in place and the above is being concealed.

MBC Legal Fees Contract - J E Baring & Co CA29830
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/m...

Yours faithfully,

Ed Boyce