by Alex Dunnagan | Nov 14, 2022
Taxpayer Protection Taskforce set to wrap up despite collecting less than 25% lost to fraud and error in the Coronavirus relief schemes. HMRC estimates that at least £3.3bn in fraud and error will be outstanding at the end of the financial year when the taskforce...
by Alex Dunnagan | Oct 27, 2022
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Anti-Corruption & Responsible Tax and TaxWatch have published a joint report outlining how supposedly ‘legal’ tax avoidance could actually be prosecuted as tax fraud. The report explains that there exists a serious enforcement...
by George Turner | Jun 7, 2022
Taxation magazine recently carried an article from our Executive Director looking at HMRC’s record on tackling marketed tax avoidance schemes over the last 10 years. The article looks at the differing results HMRC has achieved going after two different types of...
by Alex Dunnagan | Mar 7, 2022
TaxWatch is calling on the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to investigate the fraudulent use of Mini Umbrella Companies in DHSC’s procurement process. TaxWatch has written to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) multiple times asking what has...
by George Turner | Feb 14, 2022
HMRC’s record on tax fraud has been questioned by two select committees and in several parliamentary debates in recent weeks The last select committee inquiry on Tax Fraud was in 2015 Recent weeks have seen HMRC being put under intense scrutiny on their record on...
by Alex Dunnagan | Jan 17, 2022
Three-quarters of Covid support claimed in fraud and error won’t be collected HMRC has revealed that they expect to recover just 25% of a total £5.8bn paid out due to fraud and error in relation to the coronavirus support schemes. 1HMRC responses to inaccurate claims,...
