by David Jones | May 19, 2022 | Business Regulation, Business Start-up, Business Tax, Opinion, Payroll Services, Tax Investigations
Before I go into the detail of this case, I think it helpful if I explain exactly what long-firm fraud is. Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud, defines long-firm fraud as when dishonest individuals set up what’s an apparently legitimate...
by David Jones | Apr 28, 2022 | Payroll Services, Self Assessment
As part of its campaign to close down or at least hamstring tax avoidance schemes, HMRC has named two schemes that it considers particularly abusive. Their main aim is to send a crystal-clear message that it will not tolerate these cynical schemes and their promoters....
by David Jones | Mar 31, 2022 | Business Tax, Opinion, Tax Investigations
If, like me, you’ve read the recent reports on tax debt by the National Audit Office (NAO) and the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), you may have concluded that HMRC has pretty much thrown in the towel on chasing/collecting tax debts. In November 2021, the NAO issued...
by David Jones | May 13, 2021 | Comments on Global News, Tax Investigations
Employers NIC Fraud An in-depth investigation by BBC Radio 4’s File on 4, has revealed that tens of thousands of individuals resident abroad have been recruited to front British companies as part of schemes costing the UK tax authorities hundreds of millions in...
by David Jones | Dec 17, 2020 | Business Tax, Corona Virus
HMRC is to publish a list of businesses who are continuing to claim for furloughed employees in an attempt to reduce fraud. Employers will face the dilemma of whether to furlough employees or risk-averse publicity as new measures to name recipients come into force....