by Alex Dunnagan | May 21, 2021
HMRC have filed an appeal to the Supreme Court seeking permission to make allegations of fraud in relation to an ongoing dispute with General Electric over a massive tax avoidance scheme. TaxWatch has made submissions supporting HMRC’s application. Should HMRC’s...
by Alex Dunnagan | May 12, 2021
• 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 Furlough fraud and...
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 | Apr 29, 2021
In response to critics that have questioned why HMRC has not done more to bring criminal prosecutions against the enablers and promoters of tax avoidance schemes, the government’s standard response has been to state that “there is no criminal offence of...
by George Turner | Jan 11, 2021
As reported in the Financial Times today, HMRC has opened a number of criminal investigations into fraud following enquiries into transfer pricing schemes used by large corporations.1 News of this new approach first emerged in response to a question I posed to Simon...
