by Alex Dunnagan | May 27, 2021
27th May 2021 Why Sports Direct hired a delivery company with no drivers and no vehicles. Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group (formerly Sports Direct International), which recorded revenues just shy of £4bn last year, is facing challenges from several European tax authorities...
by Alex Dunnagan | May 12, 2021
12th May 2021 Download PDF Furlough fraud and error set to cost between £3.5bn and £7bn 5 known arrests for fraud so far concerning £5m in fraud No civil penalties have yet been issued for furlough fraud More investment required to tackle the scale of the problem...
by George Turner | Feb 19, 2021
19th February 2021 HMRC’s use of criminal prosecutions for tax fraud and other revenue crimes. A comparison with benefits fraud. Download PDF Summary In this report we look at criminal investigations and prosecutions into tax fraud and other revenue crimes...
by Alex Dunnagan | Jan 14, 2021
This paper was written by George Turner and was the basis of a presentation to the University of Exeter Business School’s Tax Administration Research Centre Conference in December 2020. Introduction The Global Financial Crisis in 2008 made tax avoidance and...
by Alex Dunnagan | Oct 18, 2020
18th October 2020 How EON Productions, the studio behind the James Bond films, has minimised UK tax for decades whilst receiving tens of millions of pounds in subsidy from the UK tax payer Introduction The British production company behind the hugely successful James...
by Alex Dunnagan | Aug 5, 2020
5th August 2020 Landlord tax evasion costing up to £1.7bn a year Summary Tax evasion by residential landlords could be costing the Treasury up to £1.73 billion a year, a new analysis by TaxWatch has found. This is more than three times the amount reported for 2010,...
