Mr Xhevahir Dauti v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
Decision date: 2 November 2010
Neutral citation: [2010] UKFTT 532 (TC)
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Short overview
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Mr Dauti appealed HMRC’s amendment to his 2006/07 self-assessment and related discovery assessments for other years which treated various unidentified bank deposits as omitted taxable income. The Tribunal found the appellant and his partner credible, accepted that many deposits were loans, repayments or monies held for others (with some corroboration), and concluded the deposits were unlikely to be income. The appeal was allowed and the adjustments for unidentified deposits in 2006/07 and the discovery assessments for 2004/05, 2005/06 and 2007/08 were reduced accordingly.
Ratio decidendi
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The Tribunal treated credible, consistent primary evidence and available corroboration as capable of outweighing HMRC’s suspicions; unexplained bank deposits will not automatically be treated as taxable income where a plausible non-income explanation is supported by evidence.
Obiter dicta
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The judgment noted that inability or unwillingness of third parties to provide evidence (for reasons such as immigration status) does not of itself make an appellant’s explanations implausible, and that prior poor accounting by an agent may account for earlier omissions.
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