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Sep 25, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Adam Craggs |Michelle Sloane
Welcome to the latest edition of our round-up of news making the headlines in the world of financial crime and compliance. Our aim is to give you an easily digestible, bite-sized overview of issues that are of interest and which may affect your business. To read more, please click on the headlines below. 1.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Adam Craggs |Michelle Sloane
Welcome to the August 2024 edition of RPC's Customs and Excise Quarterly Update. News HMRC has released a report which details the outputs of their strategy to tackle alcohol smuggling. The HMRC Alcohol Strategy was originally launched in 2010 and updated in 2016 and its focus was to address the estimated £1.2 billion per year in alcohol tax revenue which goes uncollected, due to fraud or error.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Michelle Sloane |Liam McKay
Wealthy individuals have long been the focus of a substantial part of HMRC’s compliance activities, but a difficult economic climate together with a looming general election and possible change of government is likely to lead to even greater scrutiny of HNWs by HMRC in the short term.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Adam Craggs |Michelle Sloane
Welcome to the latest edition of our round-up of news making the headlines in the world of financial crime and compliance. Our aim is to give you an easily digestible, bite-sized overview of issues that are of interest and which may affect your business. To read more, please click on the headlines below. 1.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Adam Craggs |Michelle Sloane
Welcome to the latest edition of our round-up of news making the headlines in the world of financial crime and compliance. Our aim is to give you an easily digestible, bite-sized overview of issues that are of interest and which may affect your business. To read more, please click on the headlines below. 1.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Adam Craggs |Michelle Sloane
Welcome to the February 2024 edition of RPC's Customs and Excise Quarterly Update. M&S Property Services (NW) Ltd v HMRC [2023] UKFTT 00969 (TC)M&S Property Services (NW) Ltd (the Appellant) imported a series of goods. In early 2021, HMRC's Pre-Clearance team inspected one of the Appellant's imports and found that the goods had been imported under the incorrect commodity code.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Adam Craggs |Michelle Sloane
Welcome to the February 2024 edition of RPC's Customs and Excise Quarterly Update. The government has released the outcome of a recent consultation seeking views on how to improve the Temporary Admission (TA) procedure in the UK, a procedure which allows goods to be brought into the UK on a temporary basis without paying import duties.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
taxjournal.com | Adam Craggs |Michelle Sloane |David SMith |David Smith |Richard Johnson
Home >Articles > A look into HMRC’s toolbox during a criminal investigation A look into HMRC’s toolbox during a criminal investigation © Copyright LexisNexis 2024. All rights reserved.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Adam Craggs |Michelle Sloane
Welcome to the November 2023 edition of RPC's Customs and Excise Quarterly Update. NewsHMRC has extended the Trader Support Service (TSS) until 31 December 2024. The TSS, originally set up in 2020, is a free-to-use platform which provides support to traders moving goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
solicitorsjournal.com | Adam Craggs |Michelle Sloane
Adam Craggs, Partner and Head of RPC's Tax Disputes, Financial Crime and Regulatory team, says that the vast scale of fraud against the government’s COVD-19 assistance schemes might be a major driver in the large increase in whistleblower reports to HMRC.
HMRC clamping down on COVID fraudsters
Public anger at fraudsters fuels rise in whistleblowing
HMRC is responsible for investigating furlough fraud.
