HMRC

An estranged Armagh married couple who generated elaborate hoaxes in a £610,000 VAT beef farm fraud have been jailed at Newry crown court.

EU banks and payment networks will be obliged to hand over data on e-commerce purchases to security services under a European Commission-led initiative to clamp down on VAT fraud.

But Syedur Rahman of business crime solicitors Rahman Ravelli does not believe these figures alone can be an accurate gauge of HMRC success.

http://www.mondaq.com/uk/x/862898/White+Collar+Crime+Fraud/RecentlyPublished+Figures+Show+That+HMRC+Has+Brought+Hundreds+Of+Millions+In+For+The+Treasury+As+A+Result+Of+COP8+And+COP9+Investigations

Industry Urges Lawmakers To Reconsider Anti-VAT Fraud Rules

LONDON (Reuters) - EU member states provisionally approved new reporting rules for card companies on Friday to combat value added tax (VAT) fraud in cross-border e-commerce.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-eu-banks-tax/eu-states-back-new-reporting-rules-for-card-payments-idUKKBN1XI1WO

A delivery driver who smuggled more than 8,000,000 untaxed cigarettes in pallets of grapes has been found guilty of tax evasion.

Giovanni Balboni avoided paying VAT on sales of almost £2million

UK authorities HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) have been reviewing all existing tax fraud cases to see whether there is a facilitator linked to a corporate body to pursue and a number of cases are under investigation.

https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/uk-authorities-seek-facilitator-link-in-corporate-criminal-tax-investigations

The results acquired through a Freedom of Information Report (FOI) showed that HMRC's yield from investigations exceeded £610 million since the year 2016.

https://www.accountancyage.com/2019/10/14/hmrc-fraud-investigations-to-have-netted-more-than-610m-since-2016/#.XaVs09cpfAE.twitter

Dominic Chappell, the former owner of BHS, has denied avoiding paying half a million pounds in tax