{"id":111,"date":"2018-09-01T10:54:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T09:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2019-01-07T22:03:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T22:03:25","slug":"hmrc-issued-an-updated-criminal-investigation-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/09\/01\/hmrc-issued-an-updated-criminal-investigation-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"HMRC issued an updated criminal investigation policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;which describes the kind of circumstances in which HMRC will launch a criminal investigation. As a revenue collection agency, HMRC focuses on dealing with fraud in the most cost-effective way possible, which usually means using its civil fraud procedures wherever appropriate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key Points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>National\n     Crime Agency and HM Revenue &amp; Customs have both stated&nbsp;they will\n     focus on the role of the professional adviser in allegations of money\n     laundering<\/li><li>HMRC\n     received a boost to its criminal powers following the introduction of the\n     failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion offences<\/li><li>HMRC\n     wants to increase the number of criminal investigations that it undertakes\n     into serious and complex tax crime<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Criminal investigation tends to be reserved for\ncases where HMRC needs to send a strong deterrent message or where the conduct\ninvolved is such that only a criminal sanction is appropriate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HMRC\u2019s policy gives examples of circumstances in\nwhich it will pursue criminal rather than civil investigations and makes specific\nreference to cases involving money laundering, with a particular focus on\nadvisers, accountants, solicitors and others acting in a \u201cprofessional\u201d\ncapacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;which describes the kind of circumstances in which HMRC will launch a criminal investigation. As a revenue collection agency, HMRC focuses on dealing with fraud in the most cost-effective way possible, which usually means using its civil fraud procedures wherever appropriate. Key Points: National Crime Agency and HM Revenue &amp; Customs have both stated&nbsp;they will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/09\/01\/hmrc-issued-an-updated-criminal-investigation-policy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HMRC issued an updated criminal investigation policy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}