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Tax stealing tiler sentenced

A tax stealing tiler has been sentenced for a £492,000 VAT fraud after ignoring a chance to come clean

Drury & the two seized Rolex watches with the poolside at Drury's main Spanish villa

VAT fraudster to cough up £1.2m or face longer in jail

A jailed fraudster who bought three Spanish villas after stealing from the taxpayer must pay £1.2 million back or face another seven years in jail. Graham Drury, 71, formerly of Strathalyn, Rossett, Wrexham, was jailed for five-and-a-half years in 2021 after submitting fraudulent VAT returns to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

Twyllwr TAW i dalu £1.2m neu bydd yn wynebu rhagor o amser yn y carchar

Twyllwr TAW i dalu £1.2m neu bydd yn wynebu rhagor o amser yn y carchar

Mae’n rhaid i dwyllwr sydd wedi’i garcharu, a brynodd dair fila yn Sbaen ar ôl dwyn mwy na £1.2 miliwn oddi ar drethdalwyr, dalu’r arian yn ôl neu bydd yn wynebu saith mlynedd arall yn y carchar.
Cafodd Graham Drury, 71 oed, gynt o Strathalyn, Yr Orsedd, Wrecsam, ei garcharu am bum mlynedd a hanner yn 2021 ar ôl cyflwyno Ffurflenni TAW twyllodrus i Gyllid a Thollau EF (CThEF).
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Ilona Leszczynska and Radoslaw Dobron

Beer smugglers jailed for seven years

Two fraudsters who spearheaded a Polish beer smuggling scam have been jailed for a total of seven years. Radoslaw Dobron, 36, and Ilona Leszczynska, 37, smuggled 122 lorry loads of non UK-duty paid beer via a North London based alcohol wholesaler. The beer, worth more than £3.1 million in evaded duty, was smuggled to Top Seller Ltd by abusing a commercial importers scheme.

Stronger powers to combat illicit tobacco come into force

Stronger powers to combat illicit tobacco come into force

More than 27 million illicit cigarettes and 7,500kg of hand-rolling tobacco were seized under Operation CeCe in its first two years, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and National Trading Standards have revealed.

One month to go until Alcohol Duty system changes

One month to go until Alcohol Duty system changes

Today marks one month until the biggest Alcohol Duty reforms in 140 years come into effect.
On 1 August 2023, the Alcohol Duty system will become much simpler, taxing all alcoholic drinks based on their alcohol by volume (ABV).
This replaces the current Alcohol Duty system, which consists of four separate taxes covering beer, cider, spirits, wine and made-wine.
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HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is the UK’s tax authority

HMRC is responsible for making sure that the money is available to fund the UK’s public services and for helping families and individuals with targeted financial support.

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