HMRC

Three members of the same Black Country household have been sentenced for selling illegal cigarettes through Facebook.

https://www.talkingretail.com/news/industry-news/facebook-cigarette-sellers-jailed-four-year-fraud-13-11-2018/

If he fails to pay a confiscation order for £7.9 million, he will spend an additional five years in prison

https://www.irishlegal.com/article/man-who-fled-to-ireland-after-5m-tax-fraud-jailed-in-uk

Officers seized 40,000 litres of fuel at a business address with a further 30,000 litres seized at a second location in Co Armagh.

https://www.armaghi.com/news/lurgan-news/man-arrested-and-business-searched-during-fuel-fraud-probe-in-county-armagh/77652

A director of Briar Building Ltd, submitted VAT returns from purchases of building supplies, which totalled £644,579 between 2012 and 2017, has been jailed for two years and ten months after being found guilty of tax fraud

https://economia.icaew.com/news/october-2018/somerset-director-jailed-for-vat-tax-fraud

A new report by the Public Accounts Committee says HM Revenue & Customs has "de-prioritised" a clampdown on fraud and error in the benefits system under a mounting list of demands

https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/economy/taxation/news/99542/mps-say-cracks-are-showing-brexit-hit-hmrc-benefits-fraud-and

HMRC had sought to liquidate the scandal-hit firm over unpaid tax of £1.14m by seeking the order against parent company Patisserie Holdings' principal trading subsidiary, Stonebeach Limited

http://www.cityam.com/266747/patisserie-valerie-survives-hmrcs-winding-up-petition

A Knowsley scaffolding company director has been sentenced for a near £100,000 tax fraud that she tried to blame on an innocent employee.

http://www.thebusinessdesk.com/northwest/news/2030359-knowsley-scaffolding-boss-sentenced-for-vat-fraud

HMRC has hit some of the UK’s largest businesses with fines for ‘careless behaviour’, totalling £59m in the past year, according to Pinsent Masons.

https://www.accountancyage.com/59m-in-fines-for-uks-largest-businesses/

A Rochdale clothing wholesaler has been sentenced for forging documents to steal almost £120,000 in VAT repayments.

http://www.thebusinessdesk.com/northwest/news/2030013-clothing-wholesaler-sentenced-for-vat-fraud

Common Reporting Standards will help investigating agencies but it's no windfall - the hurdles of UK Admissibility, Brexit and countries' economies could continue to stifle international tax investigations

https://www.accountancyage.com/2018/10/11/tax-fraud-investigations-one-step-forward-and-two-steps-back/