HMRC

  • 28 Jul 2023 11:09 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Two fraudsters who led a Polish beer smuggling scam have been jailed for a total of seven years.

    Radoslaw Dobron, 36, and Ilona Leszczynska, 37, smuggled 122 lorry loads of beer that they had not paid UK tax on through a north London-based alcohol wholesaler.

    https://www.thecaterer.com/news/beer-smugglers-alcohol-duty-scam


  • 28 Jul 2023 10:18 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    A new report from HMRC has revealed £110 million of fraud and error in R&D tax relief claimed by SMEs in the construction sector in 2020-21.

    The new figures have been released ahead of the introduction of tighter rules which come into force from August this year.

    https://www.scottishconstructionnow.com/articles/hmrc-uncovers-ps110m-of-fraud-and-error-in-construction-rd-claims


  • 22 Jul 2023 9:57 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    General description of the measure

    These measures are targeted at the most persistent and determined promoters of tax avoidance. The measures will:

    introduce a new criminal offence to apply to promoters of tax avoidance who fail to comply with a Stop Notice under the Promoters of Tax Avoidance Schemes (POTAS) regime issued in respect of tax avoidance arrangements

    provide HMRC with the power to apply to the court for a disqualification order against directors of companies involved in promoting tax avoidance, including other individuals who control or exercise influence over a company

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dealing-with-promoters-of-tax-avoidance/tougher-consequences-for-promoters-of-tax-avoidance

  • 20 Jul 2023 12:37 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Thankyou for the feedback to my Important warning to tech companies using R&D Tax Credits in yesterday’s HotViews. The general view was that the scheme was too open to abuse and fraud. A reader said ‘claimants were told by unscrupulous agencies that only 2-3% of claims were ever checked by HMRC’. So, as one reader said, ‘for the most part it was a tax avoidance scheme with loose connections to R&D’. But readers blamed it on HMRC’s ‘incompetence’ where HMRC laid ’itself open to this type of blatant corruption’.

    https://www.techmarketview.com/ukhotviews/archive/2023/07/18/hmrc-reports-major-error-and-fraud-involving-rd-tax-credits

  • 16 Jun 2023 5:08 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The ringleaders of a criminal gang in Belfast have been jailed after their office was bugged as part of Northern Ireland’s biggest ever tax fraud case.

    https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2023/06/14/news/27_sentenced_as_part_of_northern_ireland_s_largest_ever_tax_fraud_investigation-3349785/

  • 11 Jun 2023 10:52 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Ex-Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has denied fraud over an allegation he failed to declare more than £400 million held in a trust in Singapore to the Government.

    https://uk.style.yahoo.com/ex-formula-one-boss-bernie-095152228.html/

  • 07 Jun 2023 11:51 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    11 sham companies were part of a group that fraudulently claimed UK-taxpayer funds and transferred the money to Hong Kong.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/network-of-fake-companies-shut-down-following-bounce-back-loan-fraud

  • 30 May 2023 10:18 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Two fugitives involved in one of Britain's biggest VAT frauds have been sentenced for their part in a £150m criminal racket.

    Arif Patel, 55, and Mohamed Jaffar Ali, 59, both currently on the run from police in Dubai, were handed 20-year and 11-year jail terms respectively in their absence on Thursday following a 14-week trial.

    https://uk.news.yahoo.com/fugitives-involved-in-one-of-uks-biggest-vat-frauds-are-sentenced-131036012.html/


  • 25 May 2023 1:07 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    HMRC has found “no evidence of fraud” in a case where 12,000 Chinese companies changed their addresses to a flat in Cardiff.

    https://www.bordertelegraph.com/news/23531065.no-evidence-fraud-case-12-000-businesses-registered-flat-mps-told/

  • 26 Apr 2023 1:58 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The former Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has been charged with fraud by false representation over an alleged failure to declare £400 million of overseas assets to the UK Government following an investigation by the HMRC into the billionaire. The charge relates to the period between July 13 2013 and October 5 2016.

    https://uk.news.yahoo.com/bernie-ecclestone-attends-hearing-southwark-083902463.html/


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