HMRC has failed to fine a single ‘enabler’ of offshore tax fraud in five years | HMRC

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1. Well, when the defacto head of HMRC was found to owe millions in unpaid taxes, is it any wonder?

2. Course they haven’t. But they’ll chase me for £1200 because one of their fucking idiots can’t press a simple button to say I’ve changed jobs.

3. I live on the Isle of Man, I can give em some names.

4. Worked many many years in Private Banking – UK & M.E. for US & Swiss Banks.

   Tax Avoidance is Legal

   Tax Evasion is Illegal.

   I suppose HMRC has no leg to stand on…and thus cannot ‘sue’ or take any ‘enabler’ to Court on this issue, nor even ‘fine’ them…because no UK law has been broken.

5. Well, I can’t say that this failure from HMRC exactly surprises me.

6. I don’t think HMRC even have the staff required to do complex investigations at this point.

   They’d rather go for the low-hanging fruit, letting a broken automated system issue penalties and interest determinations to sole traders and pensioners in the hopes they’ll panic and pay up without asking questions.

7. This is very easy to explain – HMRC only ever goes after the middle class. Why? Because going after the lower class has no ROI for them in terms of work needed and what you get back and going after generational wealth doesn’t work, as you get litigated to hell over years. So they go after the middle class that’s on PAYE with fines <£10k.

   Also we have to take into account that the smartest tax folks don’t work at HMRC – they work for private companies. Why? More money, better benefits, less bureaucracy, etc