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HMRC gets its teeth into restaurant sector over tax evasion

Best Articles Business by Andrew Seymour on 23rd May 2019

HMRC is continuing its campaign of targeting restaurants and takeaways as financial stress makes tax evasion more tempting for smaller operators in the sector. According to business advisory firm BDO, restaurants and takeaways make up 26%

Bournemouth brothers jailed for 14 years for £3m pub and restaurant tax scam

Best Articles by Andrew Seymour on 8th February 2019

Trio ran sites in Hampshire, Dorset and Surrey, using the money to prop up their loss-making business empire and fund a luxury lifestyle

Pub kitchens push out a record three million turkey dinners

Pubs by Andrew Seymour on 4th January 2019

Growth in traditional pub meals on Christmas Day helps to deliver a £150m windfall for industry

Directors of restaurant chain cooked the books and pocketed tips in £800,000 fraud

Best Articles by Andrew Seymour on 11th December 2018

HMRC: "Fraudsters abused the tax system in a cynical and systematic way to help fund their lifestyles"

Suppliers to suffer when customers go bust after change to creditor rules

Best Articles by Andrew Seymour on 31st October 2018

HMRC awarded preferred creditor status, meaning trade creditors could be pushed further down the pecking order

OPINION: Is HMRC’s ‘hot or not’ test unfairly penalising cafe and restaurant owners?

Opinion by Andrew Seymour on 25th June 2018

Foodservice business owners might be being unfairly penalised by HMRC, in particular for how VAT is applied on food applying the 'hot or not' test, writes Annette Stone of Thomas Westcott Chartered Accountants. A client who

Curry house conman sentenced for £117,000 takeaway

Business by Andrew Seymour on 22nd November 2017

HMRC Most Wanted Tax Evaders Last Year HMRC

An Indian restaurant owner who lined his pockets by stealing the VAT he charged his customers for takeaway meals has

Administrators put Hotcha’s assets up for sale after £35m money laundering probe

Best Articles by Andrew Seymour on 30th October 2017

Administrators are hoping to find a buyer for the assets of Chinese takeaway Hotcha following its dramatic collapse in the

Catering business gang served up a £240k fraud

Business by Andrew Seymour on 30th October 2017

The mastermind of a six-strong gang that laundered £240,000 by setting up a fake catering business has been jailed for

Jail time for Edinburgh restaurateur guilty of £87,000 VAT evasion

Best Articles by Andrew Seymour on 21st March 2017

The owner of two Indian restaurants in Edinburgh has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after his VAT evasion

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