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…

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…