A tax fraudster who stole more than £1.6 million by pretending to be a spy, has been told that unless he pays back the money he owes to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), he will spend a further five years in prison.

The owner of an Indian restaurant has been jailed for tax fraud after a HMRC ‘dawn raid’ discovered a secret accounts book. Nazrul Islam, from Great Barr, Birmingham attempted to hide the true worth of his restaurant takings but came unstuck when HMRC tax inspectors arrested him and raided both his home address and his… Read more…

Two tax fraudsters who used a sham tax avoidance scheme in an attempt to steal more than £60million, have been jailed for a total of 14 and a half years. Antony Blakey and John Banyard set up Ethical Trading and Marketing Ltd to deliberately commit tax fraud. The conmen enlisted the help of world renowned… Read more…

Three brothers who committed a £3 million tax fraud and used the proceeds to fund lavish lifestyles, have been jailed for a combined total of 14 years. Shahab Hashtroudi, and his brothers Shahin and Hedayat, ran 11 pubs and restaurants in Hampshire, Dorset and Surrey – none of which lasted longer than two years before… Read more…

A Chinese restaurant owner, who falsely claimed that he ran two small creative businesses to avoid paying tax, has been jailed for three years.

Four restaurant owners were found ‘cooking the books’, after an HMRC investigation uncovered an £800,000 tax fraud. The fraudsters, who ran the Panache chain of Indian restaurants in Sutton Coldfield, Stafford and Lichfield, received jail sentences totalling 10 years for evading VAT and falsely claiming tax credits. Mohammed Sharif Uddin, Mizanur Rahman and Sadiqur Rahman,… Read more…

A conman, who has been dubbed a “hardened fraudster” has been jailed for tax fraud. In his latest scam, Philip Ryle was discovered to have defrauded HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) of £350,000 by pretending to sell rare stamps at hugely inflated prices. The conman, from Weston Super Mare, used a complex series of cash… Read more…

A Leicestershire restaurant owner, who stole more than £180,000 by fraudulently underpaying VAT, has admitted committing tax fraud. Mark Hammond, aged 50, from Loughborough, defrauded HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) by failing to declare cash payments and submitting false VAT returns over a three-year period. When HMRC’s taxation investigators visited Hammond’s restaurant – The Blacksmith… Read more…

A tax fraudster who tried to claim more than £60,000 worth of tax, after falsely claiming that he was self-employed, has received a suspended prison sentence. Factory worker, Chris McGrath, from Castle Bromwich, Birmingham pleaded guilty to three counts of tax fraud after his scam was uncovered by HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) tax investigators.… Read more…

A shopkeeper who was jailed for tax fraud, has been told her prison sentence will be extended if she fails to repay the quarter of a million pounds she owes HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). Maureen Carpenter was jailed for 18 months in February this year for submitting false VAT returns. She has now been… Read more…