everton and frank lampard lose again and stayjoint bottom of the english premier league. the chair of the conservative party nadim zahawi has confirmed that he made a payment to the tax office to settle a disagreement about his tax affairs. mr zahawi said hmrc accepted that an error concerning shares he gave to his father for help in setting up the polling company yougov in 2000 had been careless and not deliberate. it comes after newspaper reports that he d paid a seven figure sum and been subject to a penalty. it s understood the dispute over mr zahawi s taxes was resolved while he was serving as chancellor of the exchequer. earlier, labour had called on nadim zahawi to resign. here s our political correspondent helen catt. nadhim zahawi is a seniorfigure in the government, the chairman of the conservative party, who sits in the cabinet. last year, he was for a few months borisjohnson s chancellor, in charge of the country s finances. is the hmrc still after you, si
translation: we will still have to fight - for the supply of modern tanks. but every day we make it more obvious there is no alternative to making the decision on tanks. the chair of the conservative party nadim zahawi has confirmed that he made a payment to the tax office to settle a disagreement about his tax affairs. mr zahawi said hmrc accepted that an error concerning shares he gave to his father for help in setting up the polling company yougov in 2000 had been careless and not deliberate. it comes after newspaper reports that he d paid a seven figure sum and been subject to a penalty. it s understood the dispute over mr zahawi s taxes was resolved while he was serving as chancellor of the exchequer. earlier labour had called on nadim zahawi to resign. here s our political correspondent helen catt. nadhim zahawi is a seniorfigure in the government, the chairman of the conservative party, who sits in the cabinet. last year, he was for a few months borisjohnson
and tributes for the legendary rock guitaristjeff beck who s died at the age of 78. there s more evidence today of the crisis in the nhs in england, ambulance response times in december were the worse on record. were the worst on record. for category two emergency calls, including strokes, they were more than an hour and a half on average. the target is 18 minutes. the highest priority calls with an immediate threat to life took almost 11 minutes on average, the target is seven. and patients are waiting even longer in accident and emergency, 35% waited more than four hours that s another record. our health correspondent jim reed reports. long queues for ambulances, the most 999 calls ever, record waits in a&e, new figures today show in blunt terms the pressure the nhs is under. martin started feeling chest pains in his home in east sussex in november. his family rang three times for an ambulance. we kept thinking, the ambulance will pull up any minute, it is going to ar
we can t verify the exact figures, but the guardian is reporting that it was a penalty of 30%. yes, so that report is consistent with what mr zahawi said in his statement this afternoon, that hmrc had agreed that his behaviour was careless and not deliberate. so what the penalty legislation does, once you ve had a tax inquiry or you ve come forward and said, oh, dear, i ve gota problem, right at the end of it, hmrc have to go into a sort of a bit of a look and see, were you careless in underpaying your tax? so how the legislation works is fairly straightforward. you ve sent a document to hmrc which is inaccurate. as a result of that, you ve underpaid your tax. the legislation then says, we need to look at how this happened. were you careless? was it deliberate? did you send in a deliberately incorrect tax return? 0r, equalstill, did you deliberately misstate your tax and then try and
potentially a higher penalty? we can t verify the exact figures, but the guardian is reporting that it was a penalty of 30%. yes, so that report is consistent with what mr zahawi said in his statement this afternoon, that hmrc had agreed that his behaviour was careless and not deliberate. so what the penalty legislation does, once you ve had a tax inquiry or you ve come forward and said, oh, dear, i ve gota problem, right at the end of it, hmrc have to go into a sort of a bit of a look and see, were you careless in underpaying your tax? so how the legislation works is fairly straightforward. you ve sent a document to hmrc which is inaccurate. as a result of that, you ve underpaid your tax. the legislation then says, we need to look at how this happened. were you careless?