Just a week after launching the Electricians Tax Safe Plan, HMRC announced plans to launch 30 new taskforces in the 2012/13 tax year.

The taskforces will target specific business sectors in specific locations where HMRC have evidence of tax evasion. The likely targets include:

• the ‘rag’ trade (the import, wholesale and marketing of clothing);
• the motor trade;
• indoor and outdoor markets.

In addition to the 2012/13 plans, HMRC also announced the last of its taskforces for the current financial year, which involves the targeting of landlords in Scotland.

More information on both initiatives is available at http://nds.coi.gov.uk/