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HMRC Enquiries and Investigations

(8 reviews)
by Sarah Laing

Revised and up to date for 2025/26. Mistakes with HMRC enquiries and investigations can cost you more than just money. This course looks at how HMRC handle routine enquiries into self-assessment returns, through to full blown investigations into a taxpayer's affairs.

£100+vat
4 CPD hours
120 days' access

This course will enable you to

  • Deal with HMRC enquiries and investigations
  • Understand HMRC’s powers, the different types of investigations and why an investigation might be opened
  • Negotiate a settlement, and mitigate penalty charges
  • Be clear about the difference between tax avoidance and evasion
  • Understand why HMRC might start a criminal investigation, and the powers and safeguards under which they must operate
  • About the course

      HMRC enquiries and investigations are not to be taken lightly. They are an important part of your role as a finance professional, and mistakes can cost both you, your company or your clients, more than just money.

      This course looks at how HMRC handle routine enquiries into self-assessment returns, through to full blown investigations into a taxpayer's affairs. It outlines current law and practice, and guides participants through HMRC procedures, pinpointing the role and responsibilities of the taxpayer, and their agent.

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    Sarah Laing

    Sarah is a Chartered Tax Accountant (CTA) and a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT). Sarah currently works as a freelance tax author providing technical writing services to the tax and accountancy professions.

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    Smith J
    19 Nov 2025
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    19 Nov 2025
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