A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) has revealed how HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is turning its tax investigations spotlight on so called ‘super-rich’ taxpayers. According to the NAO, one in three of the richest people in the UK are under “formal enquiry” at any one time by the taxman and there is… Read more…

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has turned the spotlight on more than 100 BBC news presenters and staff who are accused of tax avoidance. The tax investigation centres on allegations that they set up and misused personal service companies, wrongly claiming they were self-employed, in order to minimise the amount of tax they had to… Read more…

The director of a construction company, who lied about her business expenses in a VAT fraud, has been jailed for two years following a HMRC tax investigation into her company’s finances. Avril Elliott, 49, from Edinburgh, pleaded guilty to submitting a series of fraudulent VAT returns between 2008 and 2013. These fraudulent returns hugely overstated… Read more…

HMRC is getting tough on those suspected of tax fraud, with the expansion of regional specialised tax investigation taskforces and new methods of gathering intelligence against those suspected of not playing by the rules. HMRC’s ‘enforcement and compliance’ taskforces are teams of highly skilled tax experts, who carry out intensive bursts of activity to tackle… Read more…

Three men have been arrested in connection with a tax fraud investigation, by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). More than 30 officers from HMRC searched three residential properties and one business address during morning raids in the West Midlands. It is believed that the tax investigation involves a suspected attempt to fraudulently claim £300 million in… Read more…

Four men at the centre of a film investment scheme, who promised their wealthy clients highly lucrative HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) tax repayments, have been found guilty of tax fraud. The scheme, created by Little Wing Films, run by accountant Keith Hayley and London-based financial advisors Robert Bevan and Anthony Charles Savill, claimed investors… Read more…

A businessman used deceased people’s details to claim payments from beyond the grave in a £400,000 charity fraud. Abu Talib Ghadiri, aged 34, was found guilty for his involvement in a £400,000 Gift Aid and VAT fraud, after an intensive tax investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). The investigation found that Ghadiri, from Harrow… Read more…

The world’s media has focused on one major tax investigation story recently. A huge leak of documents has lifted the lid on how the rich and powerful use tax havens to hide their wealth. The files were leaked from one of the world’s most secretive companies, a Panamanian law firm called Mossack Fonseca. So what… Read more…

A Gloucestershire businessman, who stole almost £265,000 of taxpayers’ money by claiming false VAT repayments for his web development company, has been jailed for tax fraud for three-and-a-half years. An investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) revealed that 49 year-old Robert Steele had faked invoices and bank statements, which he used to support the… Read more…

A tax investigation has led to a  former legal representative has been jailed for two years and eight months for hiding his earnings from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and failing to pay around a quarter of a million pounds in tax and national insurance contributions. Godofredo D’alpoim Guedes failed to declare the income he… Read more…