HMRC

A Coventry man is among five people arrested in a suspected tax fraud sting.

Five people have been arrested in connection with promoting schemes designed to help taxpayers avoid paying the taxman's controversial loan charge.

It is no secret that the government has a laser focus on making corporates pay for their roles in "facilitating" tax evasion. Recent figures show that HMRC are serious in their drive to hold companies responsible for tax evasion; even companies with seemingly watertight procedures are susceptible. Now is the time to ensure that your regimes are watertight.

https://www.rpc.co.uk/perspectives/tax-take/corporate-failure-to-prevent-tax-evasion-update-a-policy-is-not-enough/

HMRC has been targeting wealthy UK taxpayers with increasing vigour.

UK tax authority HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has begun nine investigations into potential breaches of the new corporate criminal offence of failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion, with 21 other potential cases under review.

https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/corporate-criminal-offence-figures

The number of dawn raids carried out by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) fell last year, according to new data.

Five company directors from Essex have been sentenced for their part in a £3.1m fraud, that saw each of them pocket hundreds of thousands of pounds which should have been paid in tax.

https://www.letsrecycle.com/news/latest-news/waste-paper-fraud-directors-jailed/

Call for digital marketplaces to collect and pay VAT on behalf of sellers.

Online marketplaces such as Amazon and Ebay have been urged to take responsibility for VAT collection and remittance in the UK.

TWO south Armagh lorry drivers have been given suspended sentences for their part in a diesel fraud.