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Tackling VAT Fraud

Charles Yates, head of the VAT fraud strategy team, explains how the successful approach used by Customs in the tobacco smuggling strategy has been adopted as a model for tackling VAT losses

 
Charles Yates head of the VAT fraud strategy team explains how the successful approach used by Customs in the tobacco smuggling strategy has been adopted as a model for tackling VAT losses
 
As Tony Walker points out in his article on page 9 Customs have shifted the emphasis of their efforts to tackle tax fraud from a tactical approach — where success is defined in terms of outputs (such as the value of assessments raised) — to a strategic approach based on the achievement of outcomes.
 
VAT is no exception and in April last year the Government announced...

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