daviddavid
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Is it sufficient for just the directors to attend or must the book-keeper and accountant attend.
If they are coming out to you, it means something has already been flagged with them
Have everyone that looks after your accounts / returns available for the meeting, as the previous poster said, unless they go away happy these things can drag out for a long time and cost you plenty of money in penalties/interest etc if they find anything.
Not sure I'd agree with Tommy or CremeEgg's advice
I agree with previous posters that if possible you should have your tax advisor there.
Er, that's actually what I said, pretty much all I said.
I certainly take torblednam's point that Revenue will expect to be taken seriously, and of course they should be.
However if they are "calling out to look at my companies controls and systems which are in place to ensure returns are made to revenue on time" as the OP said, this is something a bookkeeper should be able to explain. Especially as they have been given notice of the visit.
You want to avoid a situation where a director is put on the spot by being asked a question they don't understand and saying something ill-considered.
Perhaps have a director meet the Revenue visitor when they arrive, introduce the bookkeeper, have a cup of tea then leave.
After a day going over "the controls and systems" either the Revenue visitor will be satisfied or they will have further questions. Which I think they leave in writing. A director then has an opportunity to prepare, do some research and get advice before answering.
I don't understand how it's better to have a bookkeeper be asked something they don't understand and say something ill-considered than a director.
You are also focusing too narrowly on what the purpose of the intervention is; the last line of the OP says "Revenue said it is to gain an understanding of what our business is". They want to gain that understanding by talking to the organ grinder not the monkey, and whatever way you stack it up if they arrive out to a small company which is owner managed, they will probably be concerned if the main man/woman isn't available to answer their questions.
But you then liked and endorsed the advice suggesting they create "plausible deniability" by absenting the officers from the meeting and putting in someone without any actual authority.
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