The UK’s HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) may have pressed pause on many of its investigatory activities due to COVID-19, but we can expect the failure to prevent the criminal facilitation of tax evasion to be a major focus as the agency establishes its ‘new normal’.
This White Paper Covers:
- A rise in the risk of tax evasion due to increased financial pressure firms are under as a result of the pandemic
- The prospect of future investigations relating to the corporate offence of failure to prevent tax evasion under the Criminal Finance Act
- How to identify and mitigate exposure to the risk of facilitating tax evasion
- What’s next