HMRC

Santander have sent urgent warnings to customers following a rise in HMRC scams which resulted in one woman losing £849.

https://www.essexlive.news/news/uk-world-news/santander-send-out-urgent-warning-6650329?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

The High Court has held a director liable for fraudulent trading in circumstances where he was aware the company was participating in VAT fraud and deliberately did not investigate

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2022/202.html

Labour has called on the government to launch an investigation into how £5.8bn was stolen by fraudsters through Covid support schemes and for the Treasury do more to recover these funds.

https://www.cityam.com/labour-calls-on-treasury-to-do-more-to-recover-5-8bn-lost-in-covid-fraud/

The Treasury expects to recover only £1 of every £4 in Covid support payments that were claimed by those who were not entitled to them, including furlough grants, it has emerged.

https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/treasury-writes-off-three-quarters-of-covid-support-grants-lost-to-fraudsters/#.Ye7w2cpBhYM.twitter

A KELTY bricklayer has been sentenced for tax fraud for the second time.

https://www.centralfifetimes.com/news/19864687.kelty-bricklayer-sentenced-tax-fraud-second-time/?ref=twtrec

Professional services partnerships have begun to come forward over wrongly claimed coronavirus support, according to new data shared exclusively with City A.M. today.

https://www.cityam.com/exclusive-professional-services-partnerships-start-to-come-forward-to-hmrc-over-wrongly-claimed-furlough-cash/

More than £1 billion has been recovered from the proceeds of crime and tax offenders since the formation of a specialist HM Revenue and Customs fraud squad five years ago.

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2022/01/01/gold-bars-cash-in-a-freezer-and-jewellery-among-1bn-taken-off-criminals-by-fraud-squad/

Tax fraud investigators have recovered more than £1 billion from dozens of offenders in less than five years including the jailed owner of three shops in Brighton.

https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2022/01/02/tax-fraud-investigators-take-back-1bn-from-offenders-including-jailed-brighton-shop-owner/

Most measures were introduced "too late" to stop fraud, with focus on prevention

https://www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/article/anti-fraud-checks-on-covid-bounce-back-loans-inadequate-nao-finds#.Yavd8W6EH6c.twitter

HM Revenue & Customs paid informants £397,950 in rewards for tip-offs on tax fraud in the year ending March 2021.

https://www.ftadviser.com/regulation/2021/11/29/hmrc-pays-informants-400k-for-tax-fraud-tip-offs/