HMRC has launched the latest phase of a three-year advertising campaign to reinforce the message that it is ‘closing in on undeclared income’, the department said in an issue briefing titled Tackling Tax Evasion.
HMRC has launched the latest phase of a three-year advertising campaign to reinforce the message that it is ‘closing in on undeclared income’, the department said in an issue briefing titled Tackling Tax Evasion.
‘In the last [sic] three years we have prosecuted 2,343 individuals, including some very high-profile barristers, accountants and lawyers, securing a collective total of 2,500 years in custodial sentences,’ HMRC said. ‘A total of 540 people were convicted of tax evasion in 2012/13 and we are on target to bring at least 1,165 tax fraud prosecutions in 2014/15, up from 165 in 2010/11.’
HMRC has launched the latest phase of a three-year advertising campaign to reinforce the message that it is ‘closing in on undeclared income’, the department said in an issue briefing titled Tackling Tax Evasion.
HMRC has launched the latest phase of a three-year advertising campaign to reinforce the message that it is ‘closing in on undeclared income’, the department said in an issue briefing titled Tackling Tax Evasion.
‘In the last [sic] three years we have prosecuted 2,343 individuals, including some very high-profile barristers, accountants and lawyers, securing a collective total of 2,500 years in custodial sentences,’ HMRC said. ‘A total of 540 people were convicted of tax evasion in 2012/13 and we are on target to bring at least 1,165 tax fraud prosecutions in 2014/15, up from 165 in 2010/11.’
