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  • Families urged to boost their back-to-school budget with Tax-Free Childcare

    Families urged to boost their back-to-school budget with Tax-Free Childcare

    With the new school term starting, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is reminding families to open a Tax-Free Childcare account today to save up to £2,000 per child on their yearly childcare bills.
    Families can use their Tax-Free Childcare account to pay for any approved childcare including holiday clubs, breakfast and after school clubs, child minders and nurseries.
    The scheme provides wor

  • One week left to extend Child Benefit claim for teenagers

    One week left to extend Child Benefit claim for teenagers

    Parents have one week after GCSE results day to tell HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) that their 16-year-old is continuing their education or training, to continue receiving Child Benefit.
    Teenagers will find out their GCSE results this week and many will be considering their future and whether to stay on in education. Child Benefit payments stop on 31 August after a child turns 16, but parents ca

  • 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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  • Ilona Leszczynska and Radoslaw Dobron

    Beer smugglers jailed for seven years

    Two fraudsters who spearheaded a Polish beer smuggling scam have been jailed for a total of seven years. Radoslaw Dobron, 36, and Ilona Leszczynska, 37, smuggled 122 lorry loads of non UK-duty paid beer via a North London based alcohol wholesaler. The beer, worth more than £3.1 million in evaded duty, was smuggled to Top Seller Ltd by abusing a commercial importers scheme.

  • Stronger powers to combat illicit tobacco come into force

    Stronger powers to combat illicit tobacco come into force

    More than 27 million illicit cigarettes and 7,500kg of hand-rolling tobacco were seized under Operation CeCe in its first two years, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and National Trading Standards have revealed.

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