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UK HMRC Confirms Failure to Meet Tax Obligations Due to COVID-19 Considered a Reasonable Excuse

|Approved Changes|United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The UK Association of Taxation Technicians has issued the following announcing that UK HMRC has confirmed that a failure to meet tax obligations as a result of COVID-19 can be considered a reasonable excuse.

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COVID-19 – reasonable excuse and more time to appeal

07 May 2020

HMRC have now confirmed that, where a taxpayer is unable to meet an obligation (such as a payment or filing deadline) due to COVID19, that will be accepted as a reasonable excuse, provided they manage to remedy the …

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