Richard Clutterbuck PAYE Compliance Consultant
“The number of investigations carried out by HMRC into employer compliance is growing. The investigations themselves can last for a long while and take up a huge amount of business’ resources in providing the information required. My role is to help to support our clients under investigation, and provide advice to clients regarding implementing robust systems to mitigate the worst effects of an investigation.”
Areas of expertise
Richard supports Francis Clark's team of taxation specialists to provide clients with health checks on employment compliance systems, HMRC enquiries and correspondence and providing advice in the areas of PAYE compliance, expenses and benefits.
Richard has a roving brief across all Francis Clark offices.
Professional credentials
Richard began his career in the public sector nearly 30 years ago with the National Insurance Department of the Department of Health and Social Security. In 1998 the Contributions Agency (formerly the National Insurance Department) merged with the Inland Revenue and Richard was trained as an employer compliance officer combining his National Insurance knowledge with PAYE, expenses and benefits tax training.
His last post before joining Francis Clark was as employer Compliance Team manager working in HMRC Newton Abbot where he was responsible for a team of 16 members of staff including all aspects of compliance work, the settlement of cases, the negotiation of penalties and commissioners’ hearings.
Richard worked for many years in H M Revenue and Customs as an Employer Compliance Manager following a long career as a National Insurance Inspector and an Employer Compliance Officer.
Richard’s duties were extensively involved in dealing with Employers PAYE, Expenses and Benefits issues as well as Contractors working within the construction industry, ensuring compliance in all aspects of the current CIS scheme.
Of particular note is Richard’s experience in dealing with employment status disputes particularly those of sub contractors within the construction industry. Also Richard has been involved in the preparation of cases for hearing before The Tribunal Service as well as settlement of cases with HMRC including the negotiation and mitigation of penalty charges.
Since the introduction of the new Construction Industry Scheme Richard has been very successful in defending clients who face potentially huge HMRC penalty determinations issues as well as the loss of contractor gross payment status.