Counter-Avoidance
Freedom of Information Team
S1715
6 Floor
Ms Verity Porter
Central Mail Unit
Newcastle Upon Tyne
By em
ail: request-509740-
NE98 1ZZ
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Email
xxx.xxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xxx.xx
Web
www.gov.uk
Date: 11 September 2018
Our ref:
FOI2018/01800
Dear Ms Porter
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)
Thank you for your request, which was received on 13 August, for the following information:
“How many emails have been sent to the settlement email address
xx.xxxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xxx.xx that have not yet been assigned to a case worker?”
Your request for information has been interpreted as referring to email correspondence sent
to the above email address where users have expressed an interest to settle their tax affairs
under the Disguised Remuneration (DR) settlement terms published on 7 November 2017. If
this is incorrect, please let me know.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is prioritising cases where users have expressed an
interest to settle their tax affairs under the DR settlement terms issued on 7 November 2017.
All users who registered their interest to settle by 31 May 2018 should now have received a
settlement pack. We have also advised agents representing groups of users what
information is required from customers to progress their cases.
We are also prioritising expressions of interest to settle received after 31 May 2018 so that
users receive their settlement packs as soon as possible and have every opportunity to
submit them by the 30 September 2018.
I can confirm that where users have subsequently provided us the required information, we
have referred these cases to our settlement teams for consideration and to progress towards
settlement. All users that provide us with the required information to settle by 30 September
will be processed before April 2019.
Outside the FOIA, you might like to be aware that a response to an FOI requesting
information about HMRC resources to support the settlement of disguised remuneration
cases has recently been published on the whatdotheyknow.com website at:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/settlement_resources#incoming-1227389
You also might like to be aware that on 18 July 2018 a ‘HMRC issue briefing: disguised
remuneration charge on loans’ was published on GOV.UK at:
www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmrc-issue-briefing-disguised-remuneration-charge-
on-loans/hmrc-issue-briefing-disguised-remuneration-charge-on-loans
Information is available in large print, audio and Brail e formats.
Text Relay service prefix number – 18001
If you are not satisfied with this reply you may request a review within two months by
em
ailing xxx.xxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xxx.xx, or by writing to the address at the top right-hand side
of this letter.
If you are not content with the outcome of an internal review, you can make a complaint to
the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Instructions about this process are available at
the following
link: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/
Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Team
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