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Four senior KPMG partners arrested in HMRC tax evasion inquiry
November 27th, 2015
Accountancy firm places most senior staff in Northern Ireland on administrative leave pending tax evasion inquiry Four senior executives from the Belfast office of accountancy firm KPMG have been arrested in Belfast on alleged tax evasion charges. The four partners were ...
HMRC still failing UK taxpayers, say MPs
November 4th, 2015
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is “still failing UK taxpayers”, a group of MPs has said. It accused HMRC of only answering half the phone calls to its customer care centre, and failing to carry out enough prosecutions. Members ...
Amazon and eBay ‘liable’ if they ignore VAT fraud
November 2nd, 2015
Amazon and eBay could be liable for billions of pounds in unpaid VAT if they fail to properly investigate traders using their sites to escape sales tax, the BBC has learned. The online marketplaces could be legally required to ...
Revenue & Customs ‘winding down’ inquiries into HSBC Swiss tax evaders
September 10th, 2015
After reopening investigation into HSBC clients hiding money in Switzerland, HMRC admits it has still only prosecuted one tax cheat HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is winding down its inquiries into hundreds of British customers who used HSBC’s Swiss ...
HMRC takes next step towards creating a digital future for taxpayers
August 6th, 2015
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) today announced that it will bring some existing IT services under its direct control, while it continues to plan the transition to a new IT delivery model following the ending of the Aspire contract ...
HMRC confirms HSBC Suisse bank data can now be shared
February 26th, 2015
HMRC‘s Chief Executive, Lin Homer, today announced in a Treasury Select Committee hearing that the French authorities have formally agreed that HMRC can share stolen HSBC Suisse customer account data with other law enforcement agencies and regulators, for the ...
HMRC letters warning of £1m fines hit tax firms
November 12th, 2014
The first batch of avoidance experts who could be both publicly denounced by HM Revenue & Customs and forced to reveal their clients’ names has been written to by the tax department. The advisers, who HMRC regards as potentially ...
HMRC: 10 tax avoidance danger signs
November 10th, 2014
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has alerted people to the tricks employed by tax avoidance scheme promoters. The note sets out the risks people face when they sign up to tax avoidance schemes with these including not only the ...
Revenue & Customs set to miss target for prosecution of tax evaders
October 13th, 2014
Tax authority set a target of 1,165 people a year by 2014/15, but analysis of the last tax year shows it prosecuted just 795. HM Revenue and Customs has fallen behind in its pursuit of criminal prosecutions for tax ...
CEO of tax specialist cleared of wrongdoing after HMRC climb down
September 15th, 2014
The chief executive and a former director of the tax specialist arm of financial group Montpelier have been cleared of cheating the public revenue of £1m, after HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) dropped the case against them. Watkin Gittins, ...
