HMRC loses £9.3m Kittel case

HMRC loses £9.3m Kittel case

standfirst: A payroll company has won its appeal at the First Tier Tribunal (FTT) against more than £9m in penalties and VAT assessments as HMRC could not prove it was aware of VAT fraudRed Rose Payroll (RRP) appealed to the FTT against HMRC’s application to have the company deregistered for VAT as well as a VAT assessment for £7,191,003 and a penalty for £2,157,300.HMRC were under the impression that RRP ‘should have known that it was participa…