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Online Tax Return Filing Review

ACCA and its fellow professional bodies (AAT, ACCA, ATT, CIOT, ICAEW, ICAI and ICAS) made its comments under the Working Together E-Group (WTE) umbrella, as part of their pan-profession survey. 

The survey sought members' views to provide input into HMRC's current review of its strategy for the provision of 'free' tax return online filing software and its priorities. It focused in particular on free HMRC software for self assessment by individuals and for payroll. The agents who responded to the survey were almost all professionally qualified and had considerable experience of online filing. We estimate that these agents were responsible for filing at least 250,000 self assessment returns for individuals online last year.

Our conclusion is that there is overwhelming support amongst respondents to our survey for the Government to fund and provide via HMRC a fully functioning efficient online filing system for tax returns. Any consideration of a move away from this should include a wide public consultation with tax agents, pro bono organisations, users and potential users (those filing on paper) of the online filing system, and by extensive research.

Download the full report to read the indepth findings from 'related documents' (see left).


[18/09/08]

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