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…

A  West Midlands fraudster has been jailed for two years, after illegally living tax free for six years. Abdul Rehman, from Solihull, failed to pay any tax on his £3 million online business and produced fake invoices when HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) tax investigators began looking into his finances. Rehman ran an online office… Read more…

A tax fraudster, who handled more than £360,000 in illegal scrap metal cash payments, is now behind bars, after his crime was uncovered. Carl Bulmer, aged 45, from Keadby in Lincolnshire, fell foul of money laundering regulations. Scrap metal dealers are no longer legally allowed to pay out or accept cash. Instead payments need to… Read more…

Two separate VAT fraud incidents, involving huge quantities of illegal cigarettes, have resulted in fraudsters being jailed for their crimes. In the first case, a building labourer was discovered to have nearly two million illicit cigarettes in a storage unit. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) taxation investigators were alerted to the fraud, after police officers… Read more…

Twin tax fraudsters who fraudulently claimed more than £450,000 in Gift Aid repayments after setting up a sham charity, are now both behind bars. Arfan and Imran Ali from Birmingham, who claimed their charity had been set up to provide clean water to third world countries, tried to mislead the jury by blaming each other… Read more…

A tax fraudster, who used stolen VAT money to pay for flying lessons, has had his wings clipped after his lies finally caught up with him and he was jailed for four and a half years. Thirty-nine-year-old Keiran Farrer from Carlisle, had repeatedly tried to deceive both HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and the Department… Read more…

A scrap metal dealer, who committed tax fraud when he failed to hand over more than £200,000 of VAT he had charged his customers, has been imprisoned for 18 months. HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) taxation investigators discovered the VAT fraud when they looked into the business affairs of Russell Goodenough, who ran the scrap… Read more…

The owner of two Chinese restaurants, who has already served a jail sentence for VAT fraud, is back behind bars after failing to repay the money he stole from the taxman. David Ying Chung Lai, who owns two restaurants in Newcastle city centre was initially jailed for 20 months for tax fraud. Taxation investigators from… Read more…

Two generations of the same family were handed jail sentences after they were found guilty of tax fraud. Bernard and Maureen Knutsen, along with their daughter Kelly Ann, were subjected to a taxation investigation when their family businesses attracted the attention of HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) inspectors. The Knutsen family ran both Chaplin’s Bar… Read more…

A fast-food owner, who deliberately committed tax fraud by lying about the true worth of his shop’s takings, has been sent to jail for two and half years. Mehmet Tekagac, who owned the Top Grill Kebab and Pizza House in Penketh, near Warrington was subjected to a tax investigation after HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)… Read more…