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A man from Middleton and his accomplice have been jailed after fleecing a business of almost £450,000. Paul Young, 37,...

This manual provides guidance on how to spot and tackle various types of VAT fraud

This manual provides guidance on how to spot and tackle various types of VAT fraud

A former litter enforcement worker in Barnet claims he was sacked for blowing the whistle after allegedly being told to target ethnic minorities with fines.

Gary Forrester, 39, told an employment tribunal that staff at Kingdom Services Group were told to go after minorities with bogus litter fines because they were less likely to challenge penalties (stock pic)

A man has been arrested in connection to a building services fraud in Wigan.

<p><span>A North Dakota man, formerly the executive vice president of U.S. operations at a publicly traded Canadian oil-services company, pleaded guilty today to perpetrating a scheme to fraudulently inflate the company’s reported revenue that resulted in shareholder losses in excess of $886 million. </span></p>

My Pokerstars account has been hacked March 21, 2021 I logged in to my Pokerstars account I received this message Your Stars account has been frozen please contact customer service. Then I looked at my email address and read this Hello Bela, To verify you as the account holder, we need an additional verification document for confirmation. Please send us a digital photo of you holding your ID document (in your hands, close to your face). This ID must be legible and the same document that youve ...

 |  Updated: 13:19, 11 February 2021 A former bursar used her schools corporate card to fund a £15,000 Amazon spree on a host of lavish purchases including garden furniture, massages, Christmas meals and a designer wallet. Emma Taylor, who was the finance manager at Northfleet School for Girls, pleaded guilty to a fraud charge after she was discovered in February 2019 by headteacher Chris Norwood. Taylor spent £15,000 on Amazon Investigators found more than 250 purchases had been made dur...

Section 69C sets out the conditions for the penalty. Section 69D sets out the conditions for applying the penalty to company officers. Section 69E sets out when a company or company officer should be named.   Mitigation Unlike Schedule 24 (FA2007) the new penalty does not offer reductions for prompted and unprompted disclosure to HMRC.   However either HMRC or the First-tier Tribunal may reduce the penalty if the trader has acted in good faith or there has been no significant VAT loss.  In c...