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HMRC launches VAT Registration Estimator

HMRC launches VAT Registration Estimator

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has launched a digital tool to help businesses estimate what registering for VAT may mean for them.
The VAT Registration Estimator has been developed after feedback from small businesses suggested an online tool would be helpful to show when their turnover could require businesses to register for VAT and its effect on profits.
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Shahid Mohammad

Car finance fraudster jailed

A gang that set up 90 bogus companies in a bid to steal more than £800,000 in a VAT and car finance fraud have been sentenced to more than 10 years.

Cross-country enquiries into suspected electronic till fraud

Cross-country enquiries into suspected electronic till fraud

Takeaways across England have been subject to unannounced inspections as part of an Electronic Sales Suppression (ESS) probe. The action by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers took place at a total of 17 different outlets in London, Ipswich, Manchester and Newcastle over the last month. It follows several separate till fraud enquiries, which include the arrest of a 47-year-old man.

Anthony Bond

Gold bars sold to repay VAT fraud

Gold bars, luxury watches and rare coins will be auctioned off to recover public money stolen in a VAT fraud. Anthony Bond, 66, from Great Missenden, Bucks, was jailed for seven-and-a-half years in April 2019 for a ‘missing trader’ VAT fraud.

Businesses targeted across Britain as part of till fraud probe

Businesses targeted across Britain as part of till fraud probe

More than 20 takeaways and restaurants in Edinburgh, London, St Helens and Stoke have been subject to unannounced visits as part of a crackdown on electronic till fraud. The action by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers took place over the last four weeks, with 24 hot food takeaways and restaurants targeted.

VAT fraudsters stripped of luxury mansion

VAT fraudsters stripped of luxury mansion

Two VAT fraudsters, who chose to spend an extra decade in prison rather than pay back stolen cash, have had their £2.1m Buckinghamshire country house sold by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
Syed Ahmed and Shakeel Ahmad, both 51, were jailed for seven years in 2007 for their part in a £12.6m VAT fraud that saw 21 individuals receive prison sentences totalling 74 years.
The defendants were joi

James Burton

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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(L-R) The ringleaders, Francis Devlin & Paul McStravick

Twenty-seven sentenced in Northern Ireland’s biggest ever tax fraud case

The ringleaders of a gang who triggered Northern Ireland’s biggest ever tax probe have been jailed thanks to secretly recorded conversations in a bugged accountant’s office. The decade-long investigation into the £5 million tax fraud ended yesterday with prison sentences issued to gang leaders 58-year-old Francis Devlin and 56-year-old Paul McStravick for a combined total of eight years.

L-R Arif Patel & Mohamed Jaffar Ali, plus images of a seized shipping container, boxes containing counterfeit items & close-up images of the goods

Counterfeit clothing boss sentenced for fraud worth more than £150 million

Two men involved in one of the UK’s largest ever carousel tax frauds have been sentenced to a combined total of 31 years in jail. Sock manufacturer Arif Patel, 55, of Dubai, was sentenced in his absence to 20 years behind bars, while co-accused Mohamed Jaffar Ali, 59, also of Dubai, was also sentenced in his absence to 11 years in jail.

L-R Arif Patel & Mohamed Jaffar Ali, plus images of a seized shipping container, boxes containing counterfeit items & close-up images of the goods

Counterfeit clothing boss convicted of fraud worth more than £150 million

The mastermind of a fake designer clothing scam has been convicted of one of the UK’s largest ever carousel tax frauds.
Sock manufacturer Arif Patel, 55, of Preston, and his criminal gang tried to steal £97 million through VAT repayment claims on false exports of textiles and mobile phones.
They also imported and sold counterfeit clothes that would have been worth at least £50 million, had

Sarah Panitzke returned to the UK by HMRC in June 2022

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

An HMRC officer seizes evidence, following a coordinated operation across England into large-scale tax repayment fraud

Four arrested in multi-million pound tax repayment probe

Four men have been arrested as part of a coordinated operation across England into large-scale tax repayment fraud. More than 50 officers from HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) Fraud Investigation Service executed warrants simultaneously in Harrogate, Torquay, London and Kent on 11 October 2022.

Tax gap remains steady at 5.1%

Tax gap remains steady at 5.1%

Statistics published today (23 June) by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) reveal the estimated tax gap for the 2020 to 2021 tax year is 5.1% – the second lowest recorded percentage – and is unchanged from the previous year.

Less than one week to go for MTD

Less than one week to go for MTD

Businesses have less than a week to prepare for Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Value Added Tax (VAT) becoming mandatory for VAT-registered businesses on 1 April, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) said today.

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