Quindell Portfolio plc – the company which on Tuesday announced its intention to buy Liverpool law firm Silverbeck Rymer – has continued its acquisition spree by taking a 29.9% stake     Read More

Taxpayers who are not under investigation but want to admit to tax fraud may ask HMRC to consider their suitability for a new contractual disclosure facility (CDF), HMRC announced last     Read More

The former deputy managing director at Vantis Tax Ltd has been found guilty of trying to defraud taxpayers of £70m in a scheme designed to exploit the rules on giving     Read More

THE crime bosses behind Britain’s biggest tax fraud are fighting to keep £184million they made. Syed Ahmed and Shakeel Ahmad have launched a legal bid from their cells to have     Read More

Mr Justice Moor’s decision in Z v Z [2011] EWHC 2878 (Fam) is believed to be the first contested case in the High Court in which the principles of Radmacher     Read More

HM Revenue & Customs has signed a deal with credit reference Experian in a bid to reduce tax credit and benefit fraud and error. HMRC and the Department for Work     Read More

On 6 October 2011, a new Tax Agreement between the UK and Switzerland was signed by the UK Exchequer Secretary and the Swiss Finance Minister. The agreement, whilst not yet     Read More

The government has postponed the implementation of its legal aid reforms by six months and its consultation on price-competitive tendering for crime work by two years. In a written ministerial     Read More

Criminal charges against personal injury lawyer and doctor collapsed amid lack of evidence A criminal prosecution involving an alleged £4m insurance fraud with a personal injury lawyer and doctor has     Read More

A Supreme Court ruling allowing the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) to rely on the ‘balance of probabilities’ to confiscate property obtained through unlawful conduct has been described as an     Read More