HMRC

Michael Stainer, 74, gave staff at The Grand doctored and "misleading" payslips showing income tax and national insurance deductions. However, a court heard yesterday he actually pocketed the cash and used it to pay the mortgages for apartments within the imposing Grade-II listed building, in Folkestone, Kent, which was once frequented by the Royal Family.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1637046/Tax-fraud-employees-money-hotelier-Folkestone-Kent

The criminal charge relates to more than £400m of offshore assets which were concealed from HMRC, according to investigators.

https://news.sky.com/story/bernie-ecclestone-charged-with-fraud-following-investigation-says-cps-12649985

Directors face bans and custodial sentences

According to latest figures, 179 company directors have already been banned by the Insolvency Service from running companies for defrauding government support schemes like furlough and the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS).

Company directors who either commit VAT fraud or fail to demonstrate procedures to prevent VAT fraud in the supply chain are being targeted by HMRC.

https://www.scotsman.com/business/hmrc-targeting-supply-chain-vat-fraud-3733762

A fugitive fraudster who was dubbed Britain's "most wanted woman" has finally been jailed – nine years after she was sentenced for her part in a multi-million pound VAT scam.

https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2022-06-10/britains-most-wanted-woman-jailed-after-9-years-on-the-run-abroad

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has arrested three people after being given new powers to fight till fraud.

https://www.thecaterer.com/news/hmrc-till-fraud-tax-evasion-restaurant-takeaway

TWO HM Revenue & Customs employees who worked together on a “sophisticated” tax fiddle have ended up behind bars.

https://www.thenational.wales/news/20167343.hmrc-employees-cardiff-caerphilly-jailed-fraud/?ref=twtrec

A former tax worker was jailed after hijacking the identity of a dead man to cover up a £171,000 fraud - and attempting to claim the deceased was a criminal mastermind behind the scheme.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/crime/ex-tax-worker-jailed-over-ps171k-fraud-after-he-blamed-it-on-dead-man-3695679

A man has been charged after more than 800,000 suspected illicit cigarettes were seized from a container in Dundee.

https://news.stv.tv/north/man-charged-after-more-than-800000-illicit-cigarettes-found-in-dundee-container

Three people were convicted today of defrauding the taxpayer for over £1 million in a criminal scheme that exploited government systems designed to support businesses.

https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/three-fraudsters-convicted-scamming-taxpayer-over-ps1-million-pay-their-lavish-lifestyles