UK Tax defaulters

Having been the subject of a recent tax investigation (all ok after 6 months investigation) I was intriged by the amount of time spent by 2 sometimes 3 inspectors on my case.Visits to my office,many letters both to me and my accountant etc
The investigation was triggered by an 'informant', this i was told by HMRC in a letter.
Well, its finished and so i looked at the list of defaulters published by HMRC. www.hmrc.gov.uk/defaulters/defaulters-list.pdf

Astonishing, their main targets seem to be kebab shop owners, publicans and builders !

Which one are you? Kabab?

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Originally Posted by Bower

Astonishing, their main targets seem to be kebab shop owners, publicans and builders

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cash businesses

Nasty business, they have more power than the police, best avoided at all costs.

This is my favourite. :

TAX PRESIDENT SERVING EIGHT AND A HALF YEARS

...and this description from Professional Pensions:

Andrew Meeson and Peter Bradley committed a “blatant fraud” by claiming £5m in bogus pensions tax relief claims for two completely imaginary pension schemes. This is now fact.


After a nine-week trial, a jury concluded the pair colluded in a plan to scam HM Revenue and Customs and pocket the proceeds. Their case highlights the fall from grace of a prominent tax official, who even advised HMRC on tax evasion.

But it also reveals a murky underside to the world of pensions, where scheme administrators worked in the same offices as notorious fraudster Tommy Scragg, who was last year sent to prison for 17 years for a £34m VAT fraud.

Both Meeson and Peter Bradley tried to shift blame onto Scragg before turning on each other. Meeson said he set up the fake pension schemes at Scragg's request, while Peter Bradley claimed he was terrified of putting his head above the parapet when Scragg and his henchmen were around.

Meeson and Bradley then tried to implicate one another. Meeson went so far as to claim that floppy disks were magically left on his desk with members' contribution data intact. Even more far-fetched, Peter Bradley claimed the large sum of money his wife transferred to the company of Steven Price, both who were acquitted of any involvement in the fraud, was because Price threatened to "burn his wife to death".

The jury did not buy either of these lines of argument. Meeson and Peter Bradley appear to have had a worryingly close relationship with Scragg, but the genesis for this fraud was theirs alone.

PP also revealed shortly after the verdict that the two men's administration company Tudor Capital Management, used to file the tax relief claims, has been linked to pension liberation schemes. The full extent of their involvement is yet to be established, but they were certainly involved in the administration of two of the three alleged pension liberation cases in the public domain.

Pension liberators are scamming members out of money, not just HMRC. PP would like to see the full force of the law brought to bear on them all.

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Originally Posted by terry57

Nasty business, they have more power than the police, best avoided at all costs.

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I try to keep my nose clean Terry but someone wrote to HMRC and tried to put me in the sh*t, this threw up a flag on my name, then they got all excited as they crossed referenced my name with the declarations at Heathrow airport and bingo here I was declaring large amounts of cash when leaving the country.

After the investigation was over they declined my request to pay my accountants fees but tell me that they will take a look at their informant.
Hopefully, at my age they might now leave me alone. :)