Topics: Crime, Law, Legal affairs

  • Tax gap holds steady at 4.8%

    The amount of unpaid UK tax has remained at an all-time low of 4.8%, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) revealed today (22 June).

  • Cigarette smuggling gang jailed for 26 years

    A gang caught red-handed with millions of counterfeit cigarettes at a Lincolnshire farm has been handed prison sentences totalling 26 years.
    The small village of Midville, in East Lindsey, was the unlikely base for the gang who were caught with more than 6.5millon cigarettes, worth more than £1.8m in evaded duty.
    Officers from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) arrested Marcin Kopec, 44, and Woj

  • HMRC gives offshore customers chance to come clean

    UK residents who were named in the leaked Pandora Papers are being given the chance to correct their tax affairs.
    HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is writing to UK residents named in the files of 14 offshore financial service providers. These providers specialise in companies, trusts, and foundations in low, or no tax, jurisdictions.
    The letters, which started going out this month, warn recip

  • HMRC issues £3.2 million in money laundering penalties

    Hundreds of businesses fined a total of £3.2 million for breaching anti-money laundering rules have been named by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
    The 240 supervised businesses named today were fined between 1 July and 31 December 2022 by HMRC for breaching Money Laundering Regulations aimed at preventing criminals from exploiting illicit cash.
    Certain types of business are required to regist

  • HMRC’s app available in Welsh

    Updates have been delivered to the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) app, giving access to most services on the platform in Welsh for the first time.

  • Birmingham employers urged to check National Minimum Wage payments as £775,000 in arrears is paid to workers

    Almost 2,800 workers in Birmingham were underpaid by £775,000 last year, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has revealed as it approaches local employers to help prevent errors in salaries.
    HMRC is writing to more than 8,000 employers in the Birmingham area to highlight common mistakes around the National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW) - offering practical support to help them get

  • HMRC issues scam warning to tax credits customers

    Tax credit claimants should be on their guard against fraudsters, as HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) warns of the latest tactics being employed by scammers.
    HMRC has issued a new alert, providing details of a number of new scams reported that aim to trick people into handing over money or personal information. Criminals use deadlines – like the tax credits renewal deadline on 31 July – to target

  • Almost £600,000 in arrears paid to workers in Bradford for National Minimum Wage breaches

    Workersin the Bradford area are being urged to check they are not missing out on wages, after £560,000 worth of arrears was paid out in the city.
    The sum has been issued to 485 workers in Bradford who were underpaid the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage in the 2022 to 2023 financial year, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has announced.
    The National Living Wage is the minimum wage fo

  • Help to Save extended to April 2025

    Help to Save – the government savings scheme for low-income earners, which offers a 50% bonus payment worth up to £1,200 over 4 years – has been extended to April 2025, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has confirmed.

  • Number of Self Assessment customers who file early doubles in 5 years

    The number of Self Assessment customers who choose to file their tax return on the first day of the tax year (6 April 2023) has more than doubled since 2018, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has revealed.
    More than 77,500 customers submitted their tax return for the 2022 to 2023 tax year on 6 April 2023, compared to almost 37,000 customers on 6 April 2018.
    The deadline to file tax returns for

  • HMRC confirms long-term presence in Preston

    Preston will be retained as a long-term location in the North West for HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the department has announced today.
    HMRC’s existing transitional site in Preston, at St Mark’s House and St Mary’s House, was due to close in 2025, with employees moving to our Manchester or Liverpool regional centres. Today’s announcement means more than 1,000 HMRC jobs will remain in Preston

  • West Yorkshire man jailed for Eat Out to Help Out fraud

    A former West Yorkshire town councillor has been jailed for trying to steal more than £430,000 through the Government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme.
    Mohammed Ikram, 36, of Springfield Court, Keighley, admitted stealing money from the Covid-19 support schemes, following an investigation by HM Revenue and Custom’s (HMRC) Taxpayer Protection Taskforce.
    He used his own café and takeaway business

  • Prison time doubled for ‘most wanted’ tax criminal

    One of the UK’s most wanted tax fugitives, who was caught and jailed for eight years last year, has had her sentence more than doubled for failing to repay the money she stole.
    Sarah Panitzke, originally from York, played a leading role in a vast multi-million-pound VAT fraud and became one of the UK’s most wanted criminals after absconding during her trial in 2013.
    The 48-year-old spent n

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