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''UK tax''
Any form of finance that does not result in a finance liability appearing on a published balance sheet.


(HMRC).
On double entry bookkeeping principles, the asset being financed cannot appear either.




Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs was established in the UK by Act of Parliament in 2005 as a non-ministerial merged Department established by the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act (CRCA) 2005, replacing the formerly separate UK Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise.
The effect of such financing and accounting methods is to show the entity's borrowings - and financial risk - at a lower level than they really are.




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==See also==


 
* [[Balance sheet]]
===Policy maintenance and implementation===
* [[Double entry]]
*Responsible for safeguarding the flow of money to the Exchequer through collection, compliance and enforcement activities
* [[Finance lease]]
*Makes sure that money is available to fund the UK’s public services
* [[Gearing]]
* Facilitates legitimate international trade, protects the UK’s fiscal, economic, social and physical security before and at the border, and collects UK trade statistics
* [[IAS 17]]
*Administers Statutory Payments such as statutory sick pay and statutory maternity pay
* [[IFRS 16]]
*Helps families and individuals with targeted financial support through payment of tax credits
* [[Liabilities]]
*Administers Child Benefit
* [[Off balance sheet]]
*HMRC is a high volume business; almost every UK individual and business is a direct customer of HMRC
* [[Securitisation]]
*Aims to administer the tax system in the most simple, customer focused and efficient way
* [[Securitisation special purpose vehicle]]
*Administers the Government Banking Service
 
 
===Responsibilities===
*[[Income Tax]], [[Corporation Tax]], [[Capital Gains Tax]], [[Inheritance tax]], Insurance premium tax, Stamp, Land and Petroleum Revenue Taxes
*Environmental taxes
*Climate change and aggregates levy and landfill tax
*Value Added Tax ([[VAT]]) including import VAT
*Customs duty
*Excise duties
*Trade statistics
*National Insurance
*Tax Credits
*Child Benefit
*Enforcement of the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage
*Recovery of student loan repayments
 
 
== See also ==
* [[Customs duty]]
* [[Direct tax]]
* [[Exempt approved status]]
* [[HM Treasury]]
* [[Inland Revenue]]
* [[Internal Revenue Service]]
* [[OTS]]
* [[Tax avoidance]]
* [[Tax evasion]]
* [[Tax haven]]
* [[Tax point]]
* [[Tax written down value]]
* [[Taxable person]]
* [[Taxable transaction]]
* [[Taxpayer’s Charter]]
* [[Treasury]]
 
 
== Other links ==
[https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-revenue-customs/about About HMRC]


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Revision as of 14:30, 19 July 2021

Any form of finance that does not result in a finance liability appearing on a published balance sheet.

On double entry bookkeeping principles, the asset being financed cannot appear either.


The effect of such financing and accounting methods is to show the entity's borrowings - and financial risk - at a lower level than they really are.


See also