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…

A lengthy and complex tax investigation has a resulted in a landmark court case, which sees the first ever European royal family member stand trial, faced with criminal charges for tax evasion. Princess Cristina of Spain, the 50 year old sister of the recently crowned King Filipe, has been at the centre of a tax… Read more…

Those who hide their money abroad ‘at the expense of honest UK’ citizens are being reminded that a new crackdown could boost their chances of facing a taxation investigation. Existing taxpayer disclosure facilities are being replaced. An expiry date of December 31, 2015 will see, among others, the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility wound down, giving tax… Read more…

HMRC has avoided making it a hat trick of defeats after judges finally upheld their appeal following a taxation investigation into a football club. HMRC maintained Rangers broke tax rules in the use of Employee Benefit Trusts (EBTs) that, between 2001 and 2010, gave millions of pounds of tax-free loans to players and other staff.… Read more…

More than 3,800 tax investigations by HMRC local offices remain unfinished three years after they began, research says. The figures are contributing to a situation where almost a quarter of all local probes are incomplete more than 12 months after their launch. Further data, from City law firm RPC, suggests that as of March 2015,… Read more…

The average length of an HM Revenue & Customs tax investigation has increased by two weeks, according to new research. PFP, which provide tax investigation insurance, reported in August that the time taken had extended from 2.5 months in 2012-13 to three months in 2013-14, although many investigations took much longer. Kevin Igoe, PFP’s managing… Read more…