criminal tax evasion. hmrc concluded it wasn t that. the other way is you simply get it wrong. tax is really complicated, there are lots of ways that people, acting in good faith and taking good advice, get tax wrong. sometimes they get it wrong, hmrc disagrees. no one is careless. careless is something very specific. careless is something very specific. careless is something very specific. careless is one of these happens. 0ther careless is one of these happens. other you didn t instruct proper advisers, you didn t follow their advice, you didn t give them the right information, or you didn t attempt to check the final tax return. to be careless is not something that happens trivially, it is unusual, and careless and a 30% penalty, suggest it wasn t a small slip up. what happened here was that this zahawi received a large sum, my estimate is 27 million, didn t seek professional advice, didn t report it to hmrc, didn t pay the tax. find