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The Treasury expects to recover only £1 of every £4 in Covid support payments that were claimed by those who were not entitled to them, including furlough grants, it has emerged.

https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/treasury-writes-off-three-quarters-of-covid-support-grants-lost-to-fraudsters/#.Ye7w2cpBhYM.twitter

A KELTY bricklayer has been sentenced for tax fraud for the second time.

https://www.centralfifetimes.com/news/19864687.kelty-bricklayer-sentenced-tax-fraud-second-time/?ref=twtrec

Professional services partnerships have begun to come forward over wrongly claimed coronavirus support, according to new data shared exclusively with City A.M. today.

https://www.cityam.com/exclusive-professional-services-partnerships-start-to-come-forward-to-hmrc-over-wrongly-claimed-furlough-cash/

More than £1 billion has been recovered from the proceeds of crime and tax offenders since the formation of a specialist HM Revenue and Customs fraud squad five years ago.

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2022/01/01/gold-bars-cash-in-a-freezer-and-jewellery-among-1bn-taken-off-criminals-by-fraud-squad/

Tax fraud investigators have recovered more than £1 billion from dozens of offenders in less than five years including the jailed owner of three shops in Brighton.

https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2022/01/02/tax-fraud-investigators-take-back-1bn-from-offenders-including-jailed-brighton-shop-owner/

Most measures were introduced "too late" to stop fraud, with focus on prevention

https://www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/article/anti-fraud-checks-on-covid-bounce-back-loans-inadequate-nao-finds#.Yavd8W6EH6c.twitter

HM Revenue & Customs paid informants £397,950 in rewards for tip-offs on tax fraud in the year ending March 2021.

https://www.ftadviser.com/regulation/2021/11/29/hmrc-pays-informants-400k-for-tax-fraud-tip-offs/

Two brothers from County Armagh have been sentenced for tax fraud after an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

https://www.armaghi.com/news/armagh-news/county-armagh-brothers-sentenced-for-290k-tax-fraud/150269

November 2021 – Research by law firm BLM into potential misuse of coronavirus fiscal support schemes has revealed that by the close of June 2021, HM Revenues & Customers (HMRC) has launched nearly 15,000 investigations into the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) and Eat Out to Help Out Scheme (EOHO). These interventions may well uncover the extent that these schemes were fraudulently accessed during the pandemic.

https://bestofboth.blmlaw.com/insights/news/thousands-more-self-employed-under-investigation-for-coronavirus-fraud-hmrc-data-reveals-27-jump-in-investigations-in-3-months/

A tax fraudster from Hove has been jailed for 10 years for dodging millions of pounds of VAT (value added tax).

https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2021/10/30/hove-tax-fraudster-jailed-for-10-years/