The regime involves a graduated series of sanctions, which carefully balances the rights of a person against the need to prevent and defeat tax avoidance.
HMRC naming and shaming deliberate tax defaulters
18 February 2015
HMRC continue to publish their quarterly list of those who have deliberately defaulted on their tax responsibilities. The latest includes a penalty of over £18 million.
Subject to certain stringent conditions, anyone who has deliberately defaulted on their tax responsibilities will have their details published by HMRC.
An Umbrella Company employing temporary workers tops the ‘bill’ this time with a penalty in excess of a staggering £18 million (£18,747,375 to be precise). This was charged on an outstanding tax bill of £23.43 million over a one year period.
Crackdown on criminals who change their names to avoid detection
20 February 2015
New guidance has been provided to ensure there is a consistent approach to handling change of name applications for official documents, such as the British Passport, Home Office travel documents and biometric residence permits
The Home Office is clamping down on people who change their identity in order to commit crimes and escape justice.
Thousands of people legitimately change their names every year, for example following marriage. But there are some who abuse this right for criminal gain – for example to commit fraud or to disguise a previous criminal background – and these new procedures will help to stamp this out. All applications to change a name must now be supported by evidence to show the acquired name and the linkage to the previous name. Foreign nationals who apply to become British citizens may be registered or naturalised in their married name, however they must first change their name on their passports and travel documents to reflect their married name before submitting an application.
Full details of the policy can be found here .
Tackling tax avoidance and evasion
23 March 2015
Further to the Budget announcement, details on the package to tackle tax avoidance and evasion have now been published.
HM Treasury and HMRC set out the action the government has taken during this Parliament and the next steps to be taken on tackling tax evasion and avoidance. In brief the further measures announced are:
to toughen the consequences for tax evaders and those who help them, including publically naming evaders and enablers of evasion
CIPP Policy News Journal
08/04/2015, Page 513 of 521
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