HMRC

Evasion of customs duties – particularly on smuggled tobacco, counterfeit pharmaceuticals, and pirated media – already amounted to £100 million in the first half of this year, while carousel frauds exploiting multi-jurisdictional tax laws have cost the tax man up to £30 billion over the last three decades.

http://citywire.co.uk/wealth-manager/news/fraud-record-as-courts-consider-900m-losses-in-first-half/a1147460

A former tax inspector who set up fake companies to deal with payroll services on  behalf of other businesses to steal almost £7million in unpaid tax has been jailed

https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/tax-inspector-who-stole-ps7million-jailed

The 11 defendants went to locations around Nottingham, Leicester, Bolton and Doncaster to store and deliver foreign cigarettes where tax of 31.2m had not been paid.

https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/gang-jailed-smuggling-millions-cigarettes-uk

Police and trading standards found the haul in a storeroom concealed in a false electrical fuse box

https://www.birminghampost.co.uk/shop-used-fake-fuse-box-15013829

It is “business as usual” according to staff at a Lincolnshire Italian restaurant after their boss was jailed for £175,000 tax fraud.

https://www.thecaterer.com/articles/535111/business-as-usual-for-italian-restaurant-despite-boss-imprisonment-for-fraud

A fraudulent retailer, who only declared sales for part of her trading day, has been ordered to repay £250,000 after being jailed for tax fraud.

https://www.talkingretail.com/news/industry-news/retailer-fined-tax-fraud-bust-30-07-2018/

The former owner of an Italian restaurant near Tower Bridge has been jailed for four years for VAT evasion.

http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/9686

Around 20 officers from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) found almost seven tonnes of tobacco, worth more than £2 million in evaded duty, inside potato bags at two rented agricultural buildings, in Bedworth, Warwickshire.

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/see-2million-illegal-tobacco-haul-14961459

HMRC explains that companies can avoid VAT penalties in future “by not becoming involved in any transactions connected with VAT fraud’’

https://www.accountancyage.com/2018/07/18/what-does-hmrc-advise-businesses-on-vat-fraud-prevention/

A 43 year old man from Leicester who led a gang of 19 on a £2.4 million VAT repayment fraud has been jailed.

http://www.capitalfm.com/eastmids/radio/news/local/leicester-ringleader-jailed-for-tax-fraud/