HMRC

Marketplaces are continuing to crack down VAT fraud in their attempt to protecting themselves from joint and several liabilities for VAT imposed by HMRC and other European tax authorities.

https://tamebay.com/2019/02/marketplaces-crack-down-vat-fraud.html

A Scarborough salesman has been sentenced for evading more than £40,000 in tax.

Bob Geldof has been faced with fresh claims of tax avoidance and fraud that relate to the funding of his 2011 solo album.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/bob-geldof-hit-with-fresh-claims-of-fraud-and-tax-avoidance-2446174

A restaurant owner who was jailed for two years for tax fraud has been served a nine-year directorship ban.

https://www.thecaterer.com/articles/545578/restaurant-owner-jailed-for-tax-fraud-served-directorship-ban

 A Manchester businessman has been jailed for stealing more than £250,000 in VAT repayments obtained through two waste management businesses.

A failed businessman once jailed for printing his own money set up a lucrative scam to repay a high court confiscation order.

Two men have been arrested and a suspected fuel laundering site dismantled as part of an HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) investigation into what is believed to be a multi-million pound fuel fraud.

http://newrytimes.com/2019/01/13/two-arrests-in-newry-following-hmrc-fuel-fraud-raid/

Cleethorpes traders say it would be a blow to Alexandra Road if Seaway had to close after its owner Sadit Sabir was jailed for a £1.4m tax fraud

https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/seaway-cleethorpes-sadit-sabir-jailed-2419875

HMRC’s fraud investigations have led to 671 people being convicted over the last 12 months for their part in tax crimes. In addition, HMRC has charged another 919 people and taken on 746 new criminal investigations.

Powers given to HMRC to crack down on tax avoidance risk undermining the rule of law and access to justice, a House of Lords report has concluded.

http://www.cityam.com/270093/house-lords-slams-hmrc-over-unfair-tax-avoidance-crackdown