http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46924 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Tue, 21 May 2013 11:36:21 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46924#post-134998 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:53:35 +0000 beau-jolly 134998@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/vatfmanual/vatf23300.htm">How to get rich quick</a><br /> This is brilliant! I wondered how these guys did the big VAT frauds. Now I know thanks to the excellent HMRC web site which explains with diagrams. Anyone can have ago now.</p> <p>&lt;edit&gt; Just don't get greedy! <em>"Investigators' suspicions were confirmed when they discovered Unique had, during the eight months in question, declared eye-catchingly large sales of £2.2bn but paid a total of £17.74 in VAT."</em> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46924#post-134898 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:23:19 +0000 tedweasel 134898@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><img src="http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd418/barryted/dodgers.jpg"> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46924#post-134819 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:50:07 +0000 Mark66 134819@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>That's a link which is just waiting to be hacked and the bosses of all the banks, Vodafone etc to be posted instead.</p> <p>It always seems strange that they'll happily bail someone for £million+ fraud, but remand someone for fairly minor crimes on demonstrations. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46924#post-134794 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:08:05 +0000 beau-jolly 134794@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hmrcgovuk">Most wanted</a><br /> Does any one else read this and think, Hmmm, that looks easy, and when you do yet caught they let you run away.<br /> They always appear surpised that someone who's pocketed millions buggers off rather than going to prison. For example:<br /> <em>John Nugent fraudulently claimed more than £22 million in duty and VAT reclaims. Nugent was arrested and bailed, but he failed to appear in court and fled abroad. He is suspected to be in the US.</em> FFS! HMRC handed him £22m then expected him to hang about and wait to be jailed? </p>