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The Education Secretary Damian Hinds is calling on online platforms to help tackle the use of essay writing services used by students at university.
Procurers will be better equipped to stop bid-rigging and save taxpayers’ and businesses’ money with the launch of an e-learning module.
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) examiners will routinely check lorries they stop at the roadside for emissions cheat devices.
Names of tax cheats have been published on the HMRC website today.
Environment Agency enforcement teams carried out more than 13,000 rod licence checks across England in May.
The CMA is calling for more whistle-blowers to expose business cartels with the launch of a national awareness campaign.
HMRC has removed more than 20,000 malicious websites during the past year, but warns people to stay alert to the threat from online fraudsters.
The CMA has issued a warning to businesses with a new campaign, which asks firms if they are “Cheating or Competing?”
HMRC has saved the public over £2.4m by tackling fraudsters that trick them into using premium rate phone numbers for services that HMRC provide for free.
The programme of speakers who will outline methods for “Beating the cheats” at the Government Chemist 2014 conference is announced.
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HMRC has confirmed today that it is working with the United States and Australian tax administrations (the IRS and ATO) on data which reveals extensive use of complex offshore structures to conceal assets by wealthy individuals and companies.
HMRC has launched an advertising campaign warning tax cheats to declare all their income before it's too late.
The 32 top tax criminals of 2012 have been sentenced to a combined total of 155 years and 10 months behind bars.
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An online map pinpointing tax cheats around the country together with their crime and sentence has been launched today by HMRC. The map allows people to see the impact of HMRC’s enforcement work.
Tax cheats who become insolvent to dodge their companies’ tax obligations face up to 5 years scrutiny from HMRC.
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