by George Turner | Jan 11, 2021
As reported in the Financial Times today, HMRC has opened a number of criminal investigations into fraud following enquiries into transfer pricing schemes used by large corporations.1 News of this new approach first emerged in response to a question I posed to Simon...
by George Turner | Nov 23, 2020
Our Director, George Turner was recently asked to speak on a panel at the Hansuke Financial Services Tax Conference, during a session on tax fraud. The panel was moderated by Alice Kemp, Barrister at RPC and included Simon York, Director of the Fraud Investigation...
by Alex Dunnagan | Oct 2, 2020
TaxWatch Executive Director, George Turner, has written to HMRC calling for those who sell disguised remuneration tax avoidance schemes to be investigated for tax fraud. We have previously written to the Economic Crime Unit of the City of London Police, calling on the...
by Alex Dunnagan | Aug 5, 2020
5th August 2020 Landlord tax evasion costing up to £1.7bn a year Summary Tax evasion by residential landlords could be costing the Treasury up to £1.73 billion a year, a new analysis by TaxWatch has found. This is more than three times the amount reported for 2010,...
by Alex Dunnagan | Aug 5, 2020
Up to £1.73 billion a year in tax is being dodged by unscrupulous landlords. The new figures are revealed in a report by TaxWatch, and suggests that levels of non-compliance have exploded since 2010, the last time that HMRC published official figures on the scale of...