From: "Troy Steadman" 
Newsgroups: uk.business.accountancy uk.finance
Subject: Re: Tax year balls-up
Date: 14 Apr 2006 08:24:00 -0700
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SandalsMan wrote:
> >With respect, I think that's somewhat naive.  It's rather like believeing
> >that clients don't sign tax returns until they're completed !
>
> No Martin, it is not the same at all.  If you deliberately gain a tax
> advantage by making up documentation to pretend a dividend was declared
> on a certain date when in fact it was not, then that is fraud and HMRC
> could see it as a prosecutable offence.  Believe me!

Much as it grieves me to support Martin, you are being naive. If a
dividend is declared and somebody forgets to finalise the
documentation, then that is what happens the length and breadth of
Britain.

The whole point about clients is that they don't understand paperwork.
That is why they employ accountants, to make sure it is all brought up
to date.