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£900,000 penalty for promoter of tax avoidance scheme

£900,000 penalty for promoter of tax avoidance scheme

A tax avoidance promoter whose schemes were used by locum doctors and nurses faces a £900,000 penalty for failing to co-operate with HMRC. IPS Progression Limited (IPS) paid their 1,593 scheme users largely with tax-free loans between April 2016 and April 2018. Some of the workers were locum doctors and nurses whose services were made available by recruitment agencies to hospitals

Complex offshore tax avoidance scheme revealed

Complex offshore tax avoidance scheme revealed

A complex tax avoidance scheme that moves income offshore has been exposed by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) today (29 February 2024), with anyone who has joined the arrangement warned to get out of it as soon as possible. The scheme – linked to businessman Darren Patrick-Green – involves contractors joining Singapore registered Procorre LLP to avoid paying Income Tax and National Insurance.

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

Tax avoidance promoter directors named for the first time

Tax avoidance promoter directors named for the first time

Tax avoidance bosses have been named for the first time in the latest move to help protect the public.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has used new powers today to publicly name directors of tax avoidance promoting companies, with customers being warned to leave the firms’ schemes or risk large tax bills.
Adam Fathers is the director of tax avoidance promoter Saxonside Ltd while Stuart John B

Tax avoidance promoter fined £1 million

Tax avoidance promoter fined £1 million

A tax avoidance scheme promoter has been hit with a £1 million fine after a legal challenge by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
Hyrax Resourcing Ltd was handed the almost-maximum allowed fine by the First Tier Tribunal for failing to disclose an avoidance scheme to HMRC as legally required.
Hyrax promoted a disguised remuneration scheme that involved routing money to an offshore trust in Jers

Tax Gap remains low

Tax Gap remains low

The Tax Gap for 2017/2018 is 5.6%, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) confirmed today.

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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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